Survey Data
Reg No
20903411
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Original Use
Steward's house
In Use As
House
Date
1870 - 1890
Coordinates
171244, 99191
Date Recorded
31/10/2006
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey former steward's house, built c. 1880, now in use as private house. Formerly having entrance front to north elevation, south elevation now being front elevation. Central hipped roof projection to north, with flat-roofed extensions to each side. Hipped slate roof, front elevation end bays being half-hipped and central entrance bay having gablet, with central rendered chimneystack having six ceramic pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble limestone walls with roughly dressed quoins. Round-headed window opening to first floor of entrance bay with dressed limestone jambs and voussoirs, square-headed elsewhere, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor of front and to side elevations, and replacement timber tripartite windows to ground floor front, latter with dressed limestone jambs and voussoirs, all windows having limestone sills. Segmental-headed door opening flanked by cut limestone Doric-style pilasters with moulded capitals, plinth and cornice, with timber panelled door, fanlight and moulded limestone step. Boundary to yard to front of house comprises dressed limestone piers with cut-stone caps and moulded plinths having ornate cast-iron railings on limestone plinths, and having flight of moulded limestone steps to lawned area. House set inside east side of gateway comprising dressed limestone piers with plinths and caps, now with sheet metal double-leaf gate, set in coursed rubble stone walls. Entrance gates to main road comprise pair of square-profile dressed limestone piers with plinths and caps, latter having decorative wrought-iron finials, with curving recent rubble stone walling having some decorative spearhead railings, with double-leaf decorative cast-iron gate.
Appraisal
This former steward's house was built as a formal entrance to the farm buildings on the Convamore estate. The rear elevation became the present handsome front elevation, this being an unusual occurrence. It retains interesting historic fabric, such as the grouped chimneystack, slate roof and varied timber sliding sash windows. This building is an important historic component of the large Convamore estate.