Survey Data
Reg No
22901609
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1850 - 1870
Coordinates
242982, 105648
Date Recorded
05/01/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house, c.1850, retaining early fenestration with five-bay two-storey rear elevation to north having single-bay single-storey return to centre. Renovated, c.1900, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch added to centre. Hipped slate roof (pitched to return) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Flat roof to porch not visible behind parapet. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls to front (south) elevation with rendered band to porch having moulded course over, blocking course to parapet, and unpainted lime rendered walls to remainder. Square-headed window openings (paired to end bays and to porch) with cut-stone sills. 1/1 timber sash windows with 2/2 timber sash windows to rear (north) elevation. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door and overlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds with gravel forecourt, and landscaped grounds to site. (ii) Detached six-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding with half-attic, c.1850, to north-east on an L-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey projecting end bay to right (east), and single-bay single-storey recessed end bay to left (west). Renovated, c.1975. Pitched slate roofs (on an L-shaped plan to main block) with clay ridge tiles, cut-stone coping, and rainwater goods now missing from squared rubble stone eaves. Random rubble stone walls with lime mortar, and section of unpainted replacement cement render, c.1975, to projecting end bay. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, stone lintels, and remains of timber fittings. Camber-headed door openings with squared rubble stone voussoirs, and timber boarded half-doors. Some square-headed door openings with lintels, and timber boarded fittings. (iii) Detached nine-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding, c.1850, to east with series of elliptical-headed carriageways. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered coping, and no rainwater goods on squared rubble stone eaves. Random rubble stone walls with lime mortar. Square-headed window openings with no sills, and red brick ‘voussoirs’. Now blocked-up with random rubble stone. Series of five elliptical-headed carriageways with red brick ‘voussoirs’, and replacement corrugated-iron doors, c.1975. (iv) Gateway, c.1850, to south-east comprising pair of rubble stone piers with red brick quoins, cut-stone coping, hoop iron double gates, and section of random rubble stone curved flanking walls.
Appraisal
An elegantly-proportioned substantial house that retains most of its original form and fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior. The paired openings to the front (south) elevation distinguish the composition, and enhance the architectural value of the house. The survival of a range of outbuildings to the grounds enhances the group and setting importance of the site, while an appealing gateway presents a picturesque feature fronting directly on to the road. The house is of additional importance in the locality on account of its historic associations with the Duckett family.