Survey Data
Reg No
32401109
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1850 - 1870
Coordinates
134797, 337243
Date Recorded
17/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1860. Pitched straw thatched roof, raised scalloped ridge, concrete skews, unpainted smooth-rendered flat-capped chimneystacks. Painted smooth-rendered walling, raised quoins. Square-headed window openings, painted stone sills, painted two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed centrally-placed door opening, plain-glazed overlight, painted four-panel timber door c. 1990. Two-storey rubble limestone outbuilding to north-west with pitched slate roofs, square-headed door and window openings, flight of cut limestone external steps to first floor level south gable. Set back from road, smooth-rendered boundary wall to east, flat-bar wrought-iron gates, dry stone boundary wall to rear south and west. Single-storey lean-to limestone rubble stone outbuilding to north set perpendicular to road. Surrounded by farmland with narrow stream across road to east.
Appraisal
This attractive thatched house is a particularly fine example of the vernacular farmhouse type with a surviving complex of outbuildings which adds considerably to its architectural and social interest. The contrast between thatch and slate, render and exposed stone, makes for an interesting interplay. Wrought-iron gates are also an important survival.