Survey Data
Reg No
22206023
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Cahervillehowe
Original Use
Country house
In Use As
Country house
Date
1840 - 1880
Coordinates
197909, 138556
Date Recorded
09/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached irregular-plan two-storey country house, built c.1860, comprising three-bay central block fronted by tent-roofed verandah, with advanced seven-bay block to west and earlier slightly-projecting three-bay block to east, both lateral blocks being gable-fronted and having canted-bay windows to ground floor. Bow window to west elevation of west block with tent roof. Multiple-bay single-storey extension to rear of west block. Pitched slate roofs with decorative terracotta ridge crestings, rendered chimneystacks and having decoratively-carved timber bargeboards to gable-fronts. Pitched slate roof with brick chimneystacks to extension. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed openings having timber sliding sash windows, mainly six-over-six pane, but having eight-over-twelve pane to west canted-bay window, four-over-six pane to east canted bay window, all with limestone sills. Square-headed opening with timber panelled double-doors. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings to north having pitched slate roofs and painted rendered walls.
Appraisal
This handsome country house, set in a mature landscape, is of apparent architectural form and detailing. The use of ornamentation is a notable feature of this house, the gables having decorative bargeboards and ornate crestings adorning the roof. The building retains many features and materials such as the slate roof and tooled limestone sills. The verandah over the entrance provides a central focus to the house.