Survey Data
Reg No
22206005
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Previous Name
Camus House
Original Use
Country house
In Use As
Country house
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
204663, 142782
Date Recorded
08/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached six-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, having projecting porch to central bays, bow window to south-east gable, single-bay two-storey return and two-bay two-storey extension to rear and multiple-bay two-storey addition to south-east. Hipped slate roof with sheeted overhanging eaves and rendered chimneystacks. Painted rendered walls having render quoins and cut limestone plinth course. Rendered Doric style pilasters to bow window. Square-headed openings, all having limestone sills. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, tripartite to south-east elevation with two-over-two pane sidelights and flanked by render Doric-style pilasters to bow window, all with limestone sills. Some replacement windows to rear. Entrance comprising pedimented porch having rendered Doric-style pilasters and square-headed six-over-six timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills and square-headed opening with glazed timber door. Multiple-bay two-storey courtyard to rear with outbuildings having pitched slate roofs, some with rendered chimneystacks, accessed by elliptical-arched integral carriage entrance to south having cut limestone voussoirs. Cut limestone piers with carved caps having double-leaf replacement metal entrance gates.
Appraisal
This handsome country house, set in a mature landscape, presents a formal, symmetrical façade of apparent architectural quality and design. The form of the building is enlivened by the rendered quoins, finely-cut limestone plinth course and ornate bow window. The pedimented porch provides the house with a central focus and adds artistic interest to the façade. The subtly diminishing windows emphasise the vertical thrust of the building counteracting the horizontal emphasis of the plinth course. A sense of grandeur is achieved through the hipped roof with overhanging sheeted eaves which grounds the house in its setting. The site is enhanced by the related outbuildings which provide context to the house within the demesne.