Survey Data
Reg No
22206901
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Country house
In Use As
Country house
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
207059, 137041
Date Recorded
18/05/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, with slightly advanced end bays flanking entrance porch, two-bay side elevations, lower three-bay two-storey wing to rear and recent glazed porch to west. Hipped slate roof with overhanging sheeted eaves, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods held in place by decorative wrought-iron brackets. Rendered coping to entrance porch. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to wing. Painted smooth rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows to ground and first floor, those to ground floor set in elliptical-arched recesses. First floor of central bay has highly ornate square-headed surround to tripartite window opening, comprising panelled pilasters surmounted by console brackets and moulded panelled entablature with scalloped detailing to underside of eaves and to window heads. Porch comprises paired render pilasters to front corners with moulded capitals, entablature and impost course. Round-headed window to front wall and door openings to sides, with ornate cobweb fanlights over openings, having fixed twenty-pane window and twelve-pane half-glazed doors. Cut limestone steps and round-profile moulded capped piers with cast-iron railings flanking each side of porch. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuildings to north-west of site having pitched slate roof and roughcast rendered walls with square-headed openings, some with timber louvre fittings. Elliptical-arched gateway surmounted by cut-stone bellcote to yard. Quadrant entrance gates at road comprise vehicular entrance flanked by pedestrian entrances. Ashlar limestone piers with moulded caps and plinths to inner pairs of piers and outer terminating piers, with inner pairs of piers having string course, fluting and floral motifs to centre piers. Wrought-iron spearhead railings and double-leaf and single-leaf gates.
Appraisal
A pleasing middle-sized house of balanced Georgian proportions, existing largely in its early form and retaining much of its original fabric. This house is elevated above other typical contemporary country houses by the undulating projections and recesses of the façade and the later Victorian ornate features including the elaborate entrance porch, theatrical tripartite window, all of which serve to enliven the underlying regular classical form. A sense of grandeur is articulated in the execution of the decorative detailing with fine craftsmanship evident in the timber carving of the tripartite window surround, in the ironwork detailing of the cobweb fanlights and in the cut-stone bellcote and carved limestone entrance piers. The house, its yard and entrance piers form and attractive and interesting group on a slightly elevated site in the landscape.