Survey Data
Reg No
20901725
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Country house
In Use As
Country house
Date
1700 - 1820
Coordinates
154833, 107930
Date Recorded
11/10/2006
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house with bowed gable ends, built c. 1810, facing south and attached to front of double-pile early eighteenth-century house having four-bay two-storey catslide-roof addition to rear. Flat-roof recent addition and conservatory to west elevation. Hipped slate roof to front block, rendered chimneystacks to rear of front block and to gables of earlier blocks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills, having timber sliding sash windows, front block having six-over-six pane windows to ground floor and six-over-three pane to first floor. Gables of earlier house have four-over-four pane windows to east and six-over-four pane to west, and round-headed six-over-six pane stairs window with fanlight to east gable of front pile of earlier block. East gable of catslide part has oval window with cobweb glazing, and rear elevation has six-over-three pane windows to first floor and six-over-six pane to ground floor. Elliptical-headed front entrance opening having carved limestone doorcase with moulded surround, engaged Doric columns flanking square-headed timber panelled double-leaf door and paned sidelights, spoked timber fanlight, and approached by limestone step. Ashlar limestone piers to east leading to cobbled farmyard to rear, having plinths, moulded caps, and balls. Two-storey ranges of farm buildings, with hipped and pitched slate roofs, rubble stone and rendered walls. North and east ranges have square-headed doors and windows to ground floor and lunette windows with timber louvers to first floor, small-pane windows to ground floor, and pitching door in gablet to north range. Building to north of house is single-storey with two round-arch vehicular entrances with brick voussoirs. Avenue entrances to south-west and south-east, former having curved rubble limestone walls and roughly dressed square-profile piers with caps and double-leaf wrought-iron gates.
Appraisal
This is an imposing classically-proportioned building retaining an interesting early eighteenth-century house to the rear. The curved bow ends give this building a sense of grandeur and this is enhanced by the retention of historic fabric such as timber sash windows, the slate roof, cast-iron rainwater goods and a fine carved limestone door surround, all of which exhibit a high level of craftsmanship. The variety of windows is interesting, the narrow four-over-four pane arrangements being typical of early eighteenth-century houses. Its various phases make this a most interesting building in terms of architectural development. The attendant farm buildings and entrance piers are well maintained and add to the overall setting.