Survey Data
Reg No
22401506
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical
Original Use
Country house
In Use As
Country house
Date
1810 - 1830
Coordinates
195898, 186882
Date Recorded
01/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house over basement, built c.1820, with return and modern extension to rear and modern flat-roofeextension to south. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls having raised render quoins. Roughly-dressed limestone walls in rear elevation with brick surrounds to openings. Timber sliding sash windows, twelve-over-eight pane to ground floor, eight-over-eight to first, ten-over-ten to basement and mainly eight-over-eight to rear, set in square-headed openings with raised render keystones and limestone sills. Timber panelled door in round-headed opening having cobweb fanlight, flanked by fluted octagonal pilasters, and having raised render block-and-start surround. Flight of ashlar limestone steps leading to entrance. Decorative cast-iron gate piers, with wrought-iron railings and cut-stone flanking piers, and roofless three-bay single-storey limestone rubble gate lodge to road.
Appraisal
The form of this imposing house, built by the Kennedy family, is enhanced by the decorative render surrounds to the door, windows and quoins. The house retains much of its original form, as well as many features and materials, such as the timber sash windows and fine doorcase. The gates are notable in that they are particularly decorative, having a wrought-iron sword motifs, part of the Kennedy family crest.