Survey Data
Reg No
32401113
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1870 - 1890
Coordinates
132927, 335462
Date Recorded
17/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1880. Single-storey gabled entrance porch. Thatched roof with raised ridge, concrete verges, painted smooth-rendered chimneystacks with mortar aprons. Pitched slate roof to porch, clay ridge tiles, extruded profiled aluminium gutters. Lime-washed smooth-rendered walling. Square-headed window openings, smooth-render slightly-projecting reveals, painted stone sills, painted two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed door openings, painted vertically-sheeted timber doors. Set perpendicular to road, small garden to west bounded by hedge and lime-washed dry stone wall, various outbuildings to east with pitched corrugated-iron roof to stables and pitched slate roof to hay-loft accessed by external flight of stone steps.
Appraisal
This fine example of a vernacular thatched house and attendant outbuildings, set with its gable facing the road, epitomises the aesthetic appeal of the rural vernacular with its long low lines, gently undulating thatch and small, widely spaced, sash windows.