Survey Data
Reg No
20902713
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1800 - 1820
Coordinates
179153, 102776
Date Recorded
23/10/2006
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1810, having three-bay rear and two-bay end elevations. Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves, and rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with render plinth course. Round-headed window to rear, square-headed elsewhere, all having replacement uPVC windows, and render sills. Round-headed door opening with chamfered render surround and flanked by fluted timber engaged columns, moulded render archivolt, timber panelled door and fanlight. Limestone threshold to entrance. Four-bay two-storey outbuilding to west having two-bay single-storey block to south-east and two-bay two-storey block to south, having pitched slate roofs, single-pitched to southern block, rubble limestone walls, square-headed window openings with timber fittings, and segmental-arched vehicular entrances, all with painted voussoirs, and square-headed door openings with timber battened half-doors. Flight of dressed limestone steps to south gable. Four-bay two-storey outbuilding to south, converted to dwelling, having pitched slate roof, rubble limestone walls, and square-headed openings with brick voussoirs, windows having render sills and recent timber windows, and doorway having limestone plinth blocks and recent timber door. Square-profile dressed limestone piers to road entrance with ornate caps and single-leaf wrought-iron gate, set to coursed rubble limestone boundary walls.
Appraisal
The regular fenestration and round-headed doorway of this farmhouse are typical features of the early nineteenth-century houses. The entrance constitutes the decorative focus of the house and retains its ornate chamfered render surround with fluted timber engaged columns. The solidly built, substantial farm buildings are fine examples of their type and employ good quality materials, such as limestone masonry and slate, in their construction. Set around a courtyard they form an integral component of the setting of the house.