Survey Data
Reg No
22207811
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1850 - 1890
Coordinates
228975, 125958
Date Recorded
15/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1870, having five-bay south side elevation and projecting front entrance porch. Slightly lower addition to rear of house lean-to roof and recent monopitch, pitched and hipped roof single- and two-storey extensions further to rear. Overhanging hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered parapet to flat roof of porch with moulded coping, cast-iron railing to front and rendered moulded cornice. Roughly coursed snecked limestone walls to house, formerly rendered, with dressed sandstone quoins. Square-headed window openings having timber sliding sash one-over-one pane windows with moulded render surrounds, having moulded cornices to ground floor, with cut limestone sills. Round-headed window to addition with margined one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window with moulded render surround. Porch has render pilasters with moulded capitals and plinths flanking entrance door and windows to side walls, paired to former. Square-headed door opening to porch with double-leaf timber panelled door and decorative overlight, with limestone steps. Square-headed glazed timber door to addition with moulded render surround and carriage lantern. Yard of single-storey outbuildings to north of house, comprising four-pile building with sawtooth profile to slate roofs west having exposed snecked rubble limestone walls with linked elliptical-headed limestone carriage entrance arch having dressed limestone voussoirs and keystone. Ranges of single-pile outbuildings with similar detailing to north and east, having eaves course and square-headed doorways, some blocked and some recent insertions. Landscaped garden to south-east.
Appraisal
This is a pleasing house of balanced proportions, the underlying Classical form of the façade being enlivened by the decorative window surrounds and imposing Classical entrance porch. Despite of some alterations, including the removal of render from the walls, this house exists largely in its original form and retains timber sash windows and other features. The courtyard of outbuildings, though much rebuilt, adds significantly to the setting of the house.