Survey Data
Reg No
31939002
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1760 - 1780
Coordinates
186662, 267685
Date Recorded
14/08/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1770, with improvements including first floor projection to rear supported on concrete columns and entrance porch to front elevation, added c.1860. U-plan hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with stucco quoins. Square-headed window openings with timber sash windows and stone sills. Rusticated entrance porch with stucco dentil cornice and castellated parapet contains a segmental-headed door opening with plain overlight and timber panelled door with stained glass panels. Outbuilding to enclosed rear yard with central carriage arch opening. Single-storey three-bay gate lodge with pedimented entrance porch to roadside with rendered gate piers. Multiple-bay two-storey derelict outbuildings to west of house.
Appraisal
Though modest in form and scale, Fortview House is embellished and enlivened by the addition of the crenellated entrance porch. Surrounded by tall evergreens, the house is hidden from the roadside with the only clue of the existence of the house being the gate piers and gate lodge. As was popular for the period, the farm buildings were constructed some distance from the main house with only a small coach house and stables to the rear yard. The house owes its name to its proximity to an archaeological feature in the adjacent field.