Survey Data
Reg No
14911001
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Country house
In Use As
House
Date
1770 - 1810
Coordinates
260599, 234193
Date Recorded
22/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey with attic house, built c.1790, with castellated parapet and towers to front elevation, entrance porch, gabled return and extensions. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and ruled-and-lined rendered chimneystacks. Hipped and flat roofs to extensions. Roughcast rendered walls with squared limestone castellated towers and castellated parapet to front elevation. Plaque and crest over entrance bay. Square-headed window openings with timber sash window and tooled limestone sills. Some uPVC windows to rear elevation. Round-headed door opening with tooled limestone Gibbsian surround with glazed fanlight and timber and glazed double doors. Door set within porch supported by limestone Doric columns. Derelict stone outbuildings and modern farm buildings to north-east of house. Site accessed through wrought-iron gates supported by decorative cast-iron piers flanked by red brick piers with crest carved onto limestone cap.
Appraisal
The striking castellated parapet and central breakfront and towers may by an addition to an earlier house. The steeply pitched roof and chimneystacks located over the end gables are all features of early eighteenth-century architecture. The partially hidden carved plaques over the entrance bay and the carved details on the entrance gates add an artistic interest to the site. The cast-iron entrance gates incorporating a cast-iron wall-mounted post box is a notable feature at the busy crossroads.