Survey Data
Reg No
30402707
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Previous Name
The Dispensary
Original Use
Building misc
In Use As
House
Date
1840 - 1880
Coordinates
109539, 255686
Date Recorded
16/09/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Detached L-plan two-storey former dispensary, built c.1860, having four-bay first floor and five-bay ground floor, single-bay return to south end with flat-roofed canted former window, and having single-storey lean-to additions to rear. Now in use as private house. Hipped slate roof, pitched to north end, and single-pitch slate roofs to additions, with rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls to front and south elevations, smooth rendered elsewhere. Square-headed window openings throughout with limestone sills having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation and replacement uPVC windows elsewhere including canted-bay. Square-headed door opening to front having raised reveals, replacement timber panelled door and two-pane overlight, square-headed replacement uPVC door to rear, square-headed replacement uPVC door to canted bay. Three-block barn to south-west having pitched slate and single-pitch corrugated-steel roofs. Rubble stone enclosing wall with limestone gate piers and recent sheet-metal gates.
Appraisal
This modest but attractive house is of typical rural nineteenth-century style and form. It is enhanced by the retention of timber sash windows and its slate roof. The non-uniform arrangement of windows gives the façade a distinctive appearence.