Survey Data
Reg No
20904518
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1830 - 1850
Coordinates
189359, 88308
Date Recorded
17/09/2006
Date Updated
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Description
Detached Tudor Revival three-bay single-storey with dormer house, built c. 1840, with gabled dormer windows and having projecting gabled two-storey porch. Recent hipped-roof single-bay single-storey extension to rear. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and having bargeboards to dormers and gables. Artificial slate roof to extension. Roughcast rendered rubble sandstone walls. Square-headed window openings to front elevation, with small-pane timber casement windows, triple-light to ground floor and first floor of porch projection and double-light to rest of first floor, all with limestone sills and having roughly dressed limestone voussoirs to all windows except dormers which are brick. Dormers project slightly and are in brick, with supporting brick courses. Square-headed window openings to rear and gables, with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, with render sills, rear dormer window projecting slightly and having supporting brick courses. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door, flanked by small-pane timber casement sidelights. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to south having pitched slate roof, rubble sandstone walls and square-headed door openings. Two-storey outbuilding to north, with five-bay ground floor and two-bay first floor, having flight of steps to south gable, pitched slate roof, rubble sandstone walls, square-headed window and door openings with brick voussoirs, doorways having having timber battened doors. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to south-west having pitched slate roof, rubble sandstone walls and square-headed door and window openings with brick voussoirs. Recent square-profile piers with double-leaf cast-iron gates, set to roughcast rendered sandstone walls with render copings.
Appraisal
This house is one of three identical houses built by the Duke of Devonshire for tenant farmers. The other two houses are Church View, Conna and Clashaganniv, Churchtown. This house is a fine example of the early Tudor Revival style that became popular in the nineteenth century. The façade is enlivened by the two-storey porch, the gable of which is mirrored by the dormers. The building retains interesting features and materials such as the slate roof, small-pane timber casement windows and timber bargeboards. The site retains its solidly built outbuildings to the rear which add context to the site.