Survey Data
Reg No
13901719
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Baltrasna
Original Use
Country house
In Use As
House
Date
1860 - 1880
Coordinates
297878, 289491
Date Recorded
04/08/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, built c. 1870. Hipped slate roofs with eaves brackets and red brick chimneystacks. Rendered walls with limestone quoins and string course between floors. Segmental-headed openings with timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Projecting porch to entrance. Farmyard complex to west, comprising four ranges of single-storey buildings set around central courtyard. Pitched slate roofs. Rubble stone walls with red brick and limestone dressings to openings. Timber fittings to some openings. Pair of cast-iron gates flanked by cast-iron piers and pedestrian gates to entrance, set in rendered walls.
Appraisal
A fine Italianate house, representative of architectural fashions in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Retaining much of its original fabric, such as timber sliding sash windows, slate roof and fine entrance porch. The outbuildings and entrance gates add context to the site.