Survey Data
Reg No
40906234
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Worker's house
In Use As
House
Date
1800 - 1850
Coordinates
223884, 409677
Date Recorded
01/11/2010
Date Updated
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Description
Semi-detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1825, having single-storey extension to west, and with modern two-storey houses or altered earlier buildings attached to the east. Pitched natural slate roof with overhanging eaves, cast-iron rainwater goods and one smooth rendered chimneystack to the east gable end. Flat felt roof to west extension. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, smooth rendered reveals, and with eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway to the west end of the front elevation (north) having timber door. Set back from road in own grounds to the south of Manorcunningham. Former corn mill and probable flax mill to the north-west (see 409062560) and Leslie Hill (see 40906204) located a short distance to the east.
Appraisal
This attractive two-storey dwelling, probably originally dating to the first decades of the nineteenth century, retains its early form and character despite the construction or heavy alteration of a two-storey structure adjoining to the east gable end. Its visual appeal is enhanced by the retention of salient fabric such as the natural slate roof and the wide timber sliding sash windows. Its location adjacent to a complex of former corn and probable flax mills (see 40906260) suggests that it may have been originally in use as a worker’s house associated with these mills to site. This building forms part of a group of related structures along with the mills, and probably with Leslie Hill (see 40906204) located a short distance to the west, and is an integral element of the built heritage of the local area.