Survey Data
Reg No
40402503
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Previous Name
Ricehill
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1730 - 1770
Coordinates
238081, 303268
Date Recorded
10/07/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey with dormer attic house, built c.1750, having single-storey front elevation, two-storey rear elevation with gabled projecting porch, and single-bay addition to west gable, c.1860. Pitched artificial slate roof, red-brick chimneystacks with tall pots original to east gable and rebuilt to west gable, replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls having smooth rendered plinth and strip quoins. Six-over-six timber sash windows with patent reveals and dressed stone sills. Replacement uPVC windows to rear elevation. Central round-headed door opening flanked by five-pane side lights in separate openings. Plain glazed semi-circular fanlight and replacement timber panelled door, approached by flight of cut-stone steps flanked by low walls with rounded render copings. Set back from road with rendered ruled-and-lined entrance screen wall to road frontage having square-profile piers and wrought-iron gates. Outbuildings having corrugated metal roofs and rubble stone walls.
Appraisal
An elegantly composed mid-eighteenth century house that retains its early form and character. The plain symmetrical front elevation is centred on the doorcase which is distinguished by flanking side lights and stone steps. Its single-storey front elevation masks a substantial two-storey house to rear, and is an interesting feature of the building. Its gable chimneystacks, tripartite entrance arrangment and elongated windows are typcial features of its time. The outbuildings to the rear help maintain its original site context, while the robust road entrance marks the presence of the house in the surrounding rural landscape.