Survey Data
Reg No
20816019
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Bellevue originally Bellview
Original Use
Farmyard complex
In Use As
Farmyard complex
Date
1850 - 1860
Coordinates
155736, 97925
Date Recorded
31/10/2006
Date Updated
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Description
Complex of outbuildings, built c. 1855, comprising three-bay two-storey block to west, thirteen-bay single-storey stable block to east and four-bay single-storey block to south. West block has hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and dressed limestone eaves course, rubble limestone walls with dressed and tooled quoins, replacement uPVC windows to square-headed window openings having red brick block-and-start surrounds to front elevation and dressed limestone voussoirs elsewhere, with cut limestone sills, segmental-arched former carriage entrance to front elevation having dressed limestone quoins and replacement uPVC windows, and square-headed door opening to rear with replacement uPVC door and dressed limestone voussoirs. Four-bay single-storey block to south with pitched slate roof having dressed limestone eaves course and with timber bargeboards to gables, rubble stone walls with cut limestone quoins, square-headed window openings with brick surrounds, cut limestone sills and timber fittings, and having square-headed doorways to front elevation with timber battened doors and carriage entrance to west gable. Stable block to east has pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and dressed limestone eaves course, rubble limestone walls with cut limestone quoins, square-headed window openings with cut limestone voussoirs and timber fittings, pair of infilled elliptical carriage entrances to centre with cut limestone voussoirs, and having square-headed door openings with timber battened doors and boarded up square-headed window openings. Entrance to south-west with square-profile dressed limestone piers with carved caps and corrugated-iron gate.
Appraisal
This yard has outbuildings of simple but varied design, the carriage entrances being typical openings to buildings attached to country houses. The structures are solidly constructed, this being accentuated by the dressed quoins and red brick surrounds to the west block. The retention of timber fittings to the openings enhances the regularity and form of the buildings.