Survey Data
Reg No
12305030
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1865 - 1885
Coordinates
240667, 164492
Date Recorded
19/05/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house, c.1875, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house, pre-1840, on site with single-bay two-storey gabled entrance breakfront having single-bay single-storey flat-roofed advanced open porch to ground floor, and two-bay two-storey end block to right. Refenestrated. Pitched slate roofs (gabled to breakfront) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, timber bargeboards to gables having finials to apexes, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Segmental-headed opening to porch with no fittings, and moulded cornice over. Square-headed door opening to house with glazed timber panelled door having overlight. Set back from road in own grounds with random rubble stone plinth boundary wall to forecourt having chamfered coping supporting iron railings, limestone ashlar piers on limestone ashlar bases having octagonal stages with stringcourses supporting domed capping, and iron gate. (ii) Detached five-bay single-storey outbuilding with attic, c.1875, to west possibly incorporating fabric of earlier range, pre-1840, on site with pair of square-headed carriageways. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered coping, and iron rainwater goods on rubble stone eaves having timber eaves board. Random rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone shallow sills, timber lintels supporting red brick dressings, and timber windows. Square-headed door openings (including to gable to side (east) elevation approached by seven steps) with timber lintels supporting red brick dressings, and timber doors. Pair of square-headed carriageways with lintels supporting red brick dressings, and timber boarded double doors.
Appraisal
A well-composed house retaining the original form and massing together with substantial quantities of the historic fabric but the external expression of which has been undermined by the inappropriate replacement fittings inserted to the window openings. An appealing boundary exhibiting high quality stone masonry together with early iron work enhances the street presence value of the site while an attendant outbuilding range of modest, almost vernacular quality contributes to the group and setting values of the site in the townscape.