Survey Data
Reg No
22206105
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Country house
In Use As
Country house
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
216301, 141968
Date Recorded
20/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay three-storey over basement country house, built c. 1800, having central porch addition to front, with three-bay full-height return and three-bay three-storey addition to rear, latter supporting cast-iron water tank. Hipped slate roof to main block and return with overhanging sheeted eaves, moulded eaves course and rendered chimneystacks, with lean-to slate roof to addition. Rendered walls to front and west end elevations, lined-and-ruled render to east and roughcast render to rear. Square-headed openings, end windows of front façade being paired, with timber sliding sash windows to lower floors and having timber casement windows to second floor, all with limestone sills. Six-over-six pane windows to first floor and two-over-two pane to ground floor. East elevation has some blind openings to south end bay, barred windows to basement and round-headed first floor window to north end bay, latter being tripartite with slender round-profile mullions to fixed timber lights. Variety of timber sliding sash windows to rear elevation. Glazed timber porch with chamfered support posts, glazed roof and glazed timber double doors with paned overlight, accessed by flight of ashlar limestone steps over area. Round-headed door opening to interior, with spoked fanlight over timber panelled door and sidelights. Pair of three-bay former workers' houses to west, now outbuilding, having pitched slate roof, coursed rubble limestone and sandstone walls, square-headed openings with mainly three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills and brick voussoirs, and square-headed openings with replacement timber doors. Yard to rear of house accessed by segmental-headed doorway and segmental-arched carriage entrance with roughly dressed limestone voussoirs, timber battened double doors and with pitched slate coping to latter entrance. Cobblestone surface in situ. Four-bay two-storey former outbuilding to east, now house, having single-storey single-bay addition to north, with pitched slate roof and brick chimneystack, coursed rubble sandstone and limestone walls, square-headed openings with recent two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills and segmental-arched carriage entrance, with roughly dressed sandstone and limestone voussoirs having glazed timber door to centre. Road entrance has square-profile rendered piers with ball finial caps and sweeping rendered plinth with balustrades and rendered coping terminating in second pair of piers.
Appraisal
The form and design of this handsome, imposing country house are typical of such high status structures built in the late- eighteenth and, early-nineteenth centuries. The arrangement of openings to the front elevation is distinctive, reflecting a tripartite division internally. The diminishing windows are typical of the neo-Classical fashion and give a strong emphasis to the verticality of the structure. The site retains its solidly constructed outbuildings set symmetrically around a courtyard with cobblestones in situ. The outbuildings, which retain their original form and structure, are important reminders of demesne-related activities. The piers and gates at the public road are notable for their decorative features such as the ball finials and the balustrades.