Survey Data
Reg No
20902719
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Country house
In Use As
House
Date
1720 - 1880
Coordinates
181765, 102385
Date Recorded
23/10/2006
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay three-storey country house, built c. 1730, with two-bay flanking two-bay single-storey wings, built c. 1860. Porch to front, lean-to to rear of east wing and single-bay two-storey extension and four-bay two-storey return to rear of house, with flat-roofed one-bay two-storey addition to re-entrant angle of house and return, with cast-iron water tank to roof. Now in use as private house. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Flat roof and moulded render cornice to porch and hipped ends to wings. Hipped slate roof and rendered chimneystack to return. Rendered walls with render quoins and plinth courses. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, having limestone sills to ground and second floors and moulded render surrounds and continuous render sill course to first floor. One double window to east elevation of return. Round-headed window openings to rear and to east elevation of return, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, rear elevation being margined. Square-headed tripartite one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window to porch, with render sill. Square-headed timber panelled doors to porch, with raised render surrounds and limestone steps. Seven-bay two-storey outbuilding to north having half-hipped slate roof, rubble limestone walls and square-headed openings, windows having render sills. Detached nine-bay two-storey outbuilding to west having pitched slate roof, roughly dressed limestone walls, square-headed window openings with render sills, and elliptical-arched vehicular entrances with dressed limestone voussoirs. Square-profile, dressed limestone piers with double-leaf cast-iron gates leading to rear. Square-profile rusticated limestone piers to east, with carved caps and plinth, having double-leaf cast-iron gates, set to boundary limestone plinth walls with spear-headed cast-iron railings.
Appraisal
This country house, built by Cornelius Pyne, has a classically-inspired façade and retains a sombre elegance through the restrained use of ornamentation. The retention of the varied timber sash windows enhances this house and the site retains substantial outbuildings built with fine quality materials. The unusual rusticated limestone piers with cast-iron gates form an imposing entrance to the house.