Survey Data
Reg No
13900901
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Rockland House
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1910 - 1930
Coordinates
320421, 310850
Date Recorded
03/08/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1920. Canted bay windows and projecting hipped porch to east elevation, three-bay two-storey kitchen wing to west. Pitched slate roofs, red brick shouldered corbelled chimneystacks, painted timber decorative bargeboards and fascia, moulded cast-iron gutters to overhanging eaves, circular cast-iron downpipes. Painted roughcast rendered walling, smooth rendered walling to porch and bay windows, raised block-and-start quoins. Square-headed window openings, paired to first floor east elevation, painted block-and-start rendered jambs, flat-arched lintels, painted stone sills, painted timber one-over-one sliding sash windows; slit windows to side elevations porch, one-over-one sliding sash windows; timber casement and uPVC casements to west elevation. Square-headed door opening to porch, moulded render surround, painted timber architrave with moulded panels, painted timber five-panel door, plain-glazed overlight, granite and concrete steps. Early water tank and cast-iron pump mechanism surviving to west. Set in own grounds; single- and two-storey lime-washed rubble masonry outbuildings to south, pitched corrugated metal roofs, flight of limestone steps to first floor level north elevation; garden to east, north and west, concrete paths; roughcast boundary wall to east, saddle-coping, painted rendered square gate piers with block-and-start quoins, wrought-iron gates.
Appraisal
This handsomely-proportioned house is a good representative of architectural tastes in the early twentieth century. Paired window openings combined with projecting canted and square-profile bays form a harmonious and compact east façade and the house retains a wealth of original fabric and detailing. A surviving water tank and pump system is a notable feature of interest and fine outbuilding and wrought-iron gates add to the overall interest of the site.