Survey Data
Reg No
11823038
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
House
Date
1790 - 1810
Coordinates
279009, 185453
Date Recorded
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Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay single-storey house with dormer attic, c.1800. Reroofed and extended, c.1950, comprising two-bay single-storey flat-roofed return to rear (west). Now disused and part derelict. Gable-ended roof. Replacement corrugated-iron, c.1950. Iron ridge tiles. Chimney stack not visible (overgrown). Square rooflight. No remains of rainwater goods on eaves course. Flat-roofed to return. Materials not visible. Lime rendered walls over rubble stone construction. Unpainted. Rendered walls to return. Unpainted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills (concrete to return). Remains of 2/2 timber sash windows (timber casement windows to return). Square-headed door opening. Cut-stone block-and-start surround. Replacement glazed timber boarded door, c.1950, with glazing now missing. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings and timber boarded doors. Set back from road in own grounds flanking courtyard. Overgrown grounds to site. Detached five-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding, c.1800, to north-east with elliptical-headed integral carriageway to left and single-bay single-storey recessed lower end bay to right (east). Reroofed, c.1950. Now disused. Gable-ended roof. Replacement corrugated-iron, c.1950. Iron ridge tiles. No rainwater goods. Random rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings. No sills. Remains of timber fittings. Elliptical-headed integral carriageway to left. Red brick dressings. No fittings. Square-headed integral carriageway to right. No fittings. Detached two-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding, c.1800, to east with pair of square-headed integral carriageways. Part reroofed, c.1970. Now disused. Hipped gabled roof. Replacement artificial slate, c.1970, with original slate to lower courses. Concrete ridge tiles. Timber eaves. No rainwater goods. Random rubble stone walls. Pair of square-headed integral carriageways. Stone lintels. No fittings. Detached two-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding, c.1800, to south-east. Now disused. Gable-ended roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. No rainwater goods on yellow brick eaves course. Random rubble stone walls. Square-headed door openings. Stone lintels. No fittings. Square apertures to gable to south-west. Fittings not visible. Cut-stone trough, c.1800, to centre of courtyard. Gateway, c.1800, to north comprising pair of rendered piers with cut-stone capping having wrought iron double gates.
Appraisal
Crophill House, which is now disused and in an advanced state of dereliction, is an attractive long, low range that retains most of its original form and character. Despite its present state, the house retains important early or original features and materials, including the remains of timber sash fenestration and an attractive cut-stone surround to the door opening, while the interior incorporates fittings such as timber boarded doors and timber panelled shutters to the window openings. Set in its own grounds, arranged as part of an informal quadrangle plan about a courtyard/farmyard, the house is complemented by a range of outbuildings that, combined, are of considerable social and historic interest representing a late eighteenth/early nineteenth-century small-scale farm holding in the locality of Castledermot. The outbuildings, also now disused and in various states of repair, are built of locally-sourced rubble granite which is a feature shared in common with many buildings in the historic core of Castledermot, and which represents the traditional method of building at the time. The outbuildings remain structurally sound and retain most of their original form. A rare survival is the cut-stone rough to centre of the courtyard/farmyard, while identifying the entrance in to the grounds on the side of the road is a simple gateway that retains early wrought iron gates.