Survey Data
Reg No
14802028
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1880 - 1920
Coordinates
225390, 232366
Date Recorded
27/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay three-storey house, built c.1900, with return and outbuilding to north-east. Situated in its own grounds. Pitched slate roofs with roughcast rendered chimneystacks. Timber bargeboards to gables and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Timber sash windows with tooled limestone sills. Diamond-shaped opening to south gable. Modern canted bay window to southern elevation. Square-headed door opening with glazed timber panelled door recessed within square-headed porch with stylized brackets supporting frieze and cornice. Tooled limestone steps and tiled entranceway. Roughcast rendered outbuilding with pitched slate roof and timber battened double door.
Appraisal
Corkhill House is a fine structure situated within its own private ground, and accessed via a winding driveway. The building, built near the turn of the twentieth century, retains all its character and charm from its unusual three-over-three timber sash windows, its entranceway with stylized door surround with rendered brackets echoing the designs of the past yet with a definite modern flair, such as the diamond light seen in the pediment of the gable and the finely-worked iron gates found within the grounds. It is without doubt that Corkhill House makes a positive addition to the architectural heritage of Clara.