Survey Data
Reg No
30406106
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Country house
Date
1770 - 1790
Coordinates
182759, 240116
Date Recorded
28/10/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Detached, three-bay, three-storey house, built c.1780, now ruinous, with slightly higher three-bay, three-storey block of c.1840 to rear, latter block slightly projecting from west end of earlier block. Latter block has bowed end bays to its main elevation flanking gabled bay. Remains of hipped slate roof to front block and possibly also to now roofless rear block, with cut-stone eaves course to front block, and crenellated parapet to rear block supported on stone corbels. Pair of cut limestone chimneystacks to middle of ridge of front block. Rendered walls to front block, and coursed squared rubble limestone walls to later block with full-height pilasters framing end walls. Square-headed openings to earlier block, having tooled limestone sills, with remains of six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to middle of east side elevation. Square-headed windows to end walls of later block, with tooled block-and-start surrounds and sills. Round-headed windows to main elevation of later block, that to middle bay extending through first and second floors, all with tooled limestone surrounds and stone sills. Wide main doorway to front of earlier block, having remains of round fanlight and of sidelights. Concrete-walled modern farm buildings with corrugated-iron roofs almost abutting main elevation of later block. Farmyard to east.
Appraisal
This formidable country house, though now ruined, physically expresses the evolution of the estate over time. Its two phases contrast sharply, reflecting changing architectural fashions, the crenellated Victorian addition being very different in form and detailing to the earlier Georgian house. The fine limestone courtyard associated with the house provides essential context for Daly's Grove.