Survey Data
Reg No
14316020
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Technical
Original Use
Country house
In Use As
Country house
Date
1740 - 1780
Coordinates
315443, 273793
Date Recorded
13/05/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay three-storey house, built c.1760. Pitched and hipped slate roofs. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings have stone sills and timber sash windows. Pedimented door surround with flanking fluted pilasters, a plain fanlight and an original timber panelled door. Original cast-iron gates and railings to front site. Walled garden to rear.
Appraisal
This house dating to the mid eighteenth century is symmetrical designed. The architectural qualities of this building are immediately apparent in the scale and form of this house. Artistic quality is apparent in the decorative treatment of the doorcase. A walled garden survives to the rear, while the related outbuildings have been replaced with modern self-contained guest houses.