Survey Data
Reg No
20403702
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Technical
Original Use
Country house
In Use As
House
Date
1840 - 1880
Coordinates
169761, 179423
Date Recorded
08/07/1999
Date Updated
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Description
Detached eight-bay two-storey over basement house with dormer attic, built c. 1860 by the Purdon family, with two-bay projecting back to left hand side and conservatory to right hand side. Incorporating fabric of earlier building. Now also in use as guesthouse. Hipped skirt roof with eaves modillions, dormer windows, cut-stone sandstone chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Exposed sandstone walls with stringcourses. Cut-stone sandstone doorcase with moulded chamfered reveals, double archivolts above, and pilasters retain springing stones of un-built portico. Timber sliding sash windows, elongated to light staircase. Timber casement windows to dormers. Retaining interior features.