Survey Data
Reg No
22205516
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Outbuilding
In Use As
House
Date
1910 - 1930
Coordinates
229503, 144895
Date Recorded
09/05/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1920, with lean-to full-height return flanked by pedimented bays and having single-storey lean-to addition. Two-storey outbuildings to rear converted to domestic use and arranged around courtyard. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, overhanging eaves and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with timber casement windows to first floor and timber tripartite six-over-six pane windows to ground floor, all having tooled limestone sills. Casement windows to rear and outbuildings with pediment limestone mouldings. Round-headed door openings with replacement glazed timber doors to front and rear. Rubble sandstone segmental entrance archway to rear courtyard having bellcote with bell. Converted outbuildings have pitched artificial slate roofs, single-storey lean-to and canted-bay window to west range and pedimented projection with blind arch to north range with heavy buttress to rear of latter range. Large millstone set on edge at gable of house. Wrought-iron gates and rubble sandstone piers and splayed walls to entrance.
Appraisal
Set within its own grounds this well proportioned building possesses interesting features such as the differing window sizes and fittings and the curved rear projections. The elaborate entrance arch to the courtyard is a noteworthy feature that predates the house and probably formed part of a stableyard complex that was associated with the former Wilford House to the north-east. The outbuildings, now converted into living quarters boast their own notable features such as the pedimented limestone dressings and blind arch.