Survey Data
Reg No
20901720
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical
Original Use
Country house
Date
1810 - 1830
Coordinates
162524, 108787
Date Recorded
25/09/2006
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, with two-bay side elevations, four-bay two-storey block to rear c. 1830 and gabled porch addition to front. Now disused. Skirt slate roof with central rendered chimneystacks having ceramic pots and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to ground floor and six-over-three pane to first floor. Porch has render plinth, all elevations having paired pilasters with plinths and capitals, some with decorative scallop detail, framing square-headed window opening with fixed eighteen-pane timber window, upper panes being rounded, set in moulded timber frame, and also framing square-headed timber panelled doors in side walls. Cut limestone piers to east farm entrance to rear. Two-storey outbuilding with pitched slate roof having rendered eaves course, and rendered walls to east. Farmyard to north with long single-storey outbuiilding range to north side having single-pitch slate roof, and open front elevation with square-headed openings. Set in mature parkland landscape.
Appraisal
This modest yet distinguished classically-proportioned nineteenth-century house was built by the Norcott family following the burning of an earlier house. The building retains its historic form and much of its fabric such as timber sash windows, slate roof and chimneystacks. The detailing to the porch is of decorative interest and the gate piers to the east show high-quality craftsmanship. The house retains its parkland.