Survey Data
Reg No
20907360
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Previous Name
Rockrohan originally Castle Lands
Original Use
Country house
In Use As
Country house
Date
1840 - 1880
Coordinates
162137, 71488
Date Recorded
02/07/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey Italianate house, built c.1860, with porch to front (east), canted bay window to side (south) and two-storey return to rear (west) connecting to earlier house, built c.1760. Hipped slate roofs with timber clad over hanging eaves, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls throughout, having rendered plinth, architrave and cornice with limestone sill course to canted bay window. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills throughout, having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash widows to front and side (south) elevation of main block. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to first floors of earlier house and return, having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and tripartite timber-framed windows with one-over-one pane timber sliding sashes to ground floors. Round-headed stairwell window opening with limestone sill to north elevation of extension, having stained glass margined one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window. Round-headed window openings with render sills to front elevation of porch and canted bay window. Render hood-moulding to porch over timber-framed window with geometric timber tracery and render sill. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash side windows to canted bay, having moulded render hood moulding. Round-headed door openings to side (north, south) elevations of porch having hood mouldings, timber panelled doors, spoked fanlights and limestone steps. Garden to south with ruinous remains of garden structure. Set within own grounds.
Appraisal
Built in front of an earlier mid-eighteenth house, the symmetry, simplicity and order of this fine building is characteristic of Italianate architecture, which was fashionable in the mid nineteenth century. Its fine porch is a noteworthy feature which adds to the appearance of the building, as do the numerous other historic features such as sash windows, stone sills and canted bay window.