Survey Data
Reg No
22208106
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Barrackcross House originally Mountain View Cottage
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
204554, 123453
Date Recorded
22/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, with slightly lower two-bay two-storey return and two-bay single-storey addition to rear and later porch and canted-bay window additions to front elevation. Hipped slate roof, pitched to return, with rendered chimneystacks to ends and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, bay windows having one-over-one pane to side windows, all with limestone sills, continuous to bay windows. Flat-roofed porch to front having eagles to corners of roof, render pilasters with plinths, square-headed door opening with double-leaf timber panelled door with paned and panelled sidelights and paned overlight. Hipped-roof porch to return with fishscale slates, decoratively carved timber corner post and decorative depressed arch timber detail to overlight, and having glazed timber door. Decorative double-leaf wrought-iron gates set to dressed limestone piers with caps and plinths to front of site.
Appraisal
The simple form of this house is enhanced by later features such as the canted-bays and front porch. The rear porch exhibits good timber detailing and the house retains its timber sash windows. Its setting is pleasant, with a garden to the front accessed through a dressed limestone gateway with decorative metal gates.