Survey Data
Reg No
11801013
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
Date
1730 - 1770
Coordinates
276595, 239152
Date Recorded
26/06/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic, c.1750, with single-bay single-storey projecting porch to centre having round-headed door opening. Now disused and derelict. Hipped roof with slate (gabled to porch behind parapet). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls (over yellow brick construction to porch). Unpainted. Rendered band to eaves. Cut-stone stringcourse to porch. Crow-stepped gabled parapet wall to porch with cut-stone coping. Square-headed openings. Stone sills. Remains of 2/2 timber sash windows with some window openings now boarded-up. Round-headed door opening. Cut-stone block-and-start surround with keystone. Timber panelled double doors. Overlight now boarded-up. Set back from road in own grounds. Part-overgrown grounds to site. Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding with attic, c.1800, to south with three-bay single-storey lean-to parallel range along rear elevation to south. Reroofed, c.1930. Gable-ended roof (lean-to to parallel range to south). Replacement corrugated-iron, c.1930. Iron ridge tiles. Iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Unpainted. Square-headed openings. Stone sills. Fixed-pane timber windows. Timber boarded door. Gateway, c.1800, to east comprising pair of monolithic piers with wrought iron gate. Gateway, c.1800, to south-east comprising pair of rendered piers with wrought iron gate.
Appraisal
This house is a fine, middle-size farm house that, although disused and in an advanced state of dereliction, retains much of its original character and fabric. The house is composed on a symmetrical design with the primary (east) elevation composed of Classical proportions. A prominent and attractive feature is the porch to front that has the effect of dwarfing the half-dormer attic over – the inclusion of a block-and-start doorcase and crow-stepped roof parapet is also an attractive feature. The house retains much of its original features, including fenestration and a slate roof. Set attractively just off the side of the road the house is a prominent landmark in the locality. A range of outbuildings to the south and west complement the house, but are in a similar state of neglect. Of some interest are the gateways to east, which are simple yet effective in design.