Survey Data
Reg No
22206604
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
Date
1700 - 1860
Coordinates
182582, 135400
Date Recorded
30/05/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached house comprising three-bay two-storey front block, built c. 1840, having slightly-recessed ends to rear wall, possibly part of early eighteenth-century house, and slightly-higher three-bay three-storey earlier block to rear with two-storey lean-to addition to north gable, and with single-bay two-storey block at north-east re-entrant angle. Canted-bay windows to front elevation. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge cresting, rendered chimneystacks and cut limestone corbel table to front block and pitched slate roof and red brick chimneystacks to rear block. Roughcast rendered walls to front block, having mainly exposed rubble limestone to rear block and north-east gable of front block. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills, having decorative render surrounds to front. Some replacement uPVC windows to front and timber sliding sash elsewhere, one-over-one pane to front block, with one narrow four-over-pane to rear and one-over-one, two-over-two and single and tripartite six-over-six pane windows to rear block, all windows having tooled limestone sills. Segmental-headed front door opening with carved limestone surround and archivolt with timber panelled door flanked by side-lights with timber panelling below and panelled timber pilasters with spoked fanlight above and limestone steps to door. Round-headed timber panelled door to north-east elevation of two-storey re-entrant block. Single-storey with loft outbuildings to rear yard with pitched slate roofs, rendered walls and segmental-headed carriage entrances. Freestanding cast-iron pump to yard. Cast-iron entrance gates and railings to road boundary set to dressed limestone piers and flanking walls terminating in pairs of piers.
Appraisal
This house is a typical small country house owned by a prosperous farmer. The canted-bay windows and ornate doorcase exhibit classical influences. The evident multi-period nature of this building is a particularly interesting feature. Retention of most of its features, such as the various timber sash windows, is notable. The outbuildings and pump to the yard are a reminder that this house once functioned as a working farm.