Survey Data
Reg No
22901727
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Archaeological, Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1760 - 1790
Coordinates
261007, 107351
Date Recorded
05/01/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay two-storey over basement house, c.1775, originally four-bay three-storey incorporating fabric of medieval castle, 1488, to basement with prostyle tetrastyle Ionic portico to centre, and three-bay two-storey side elevations having single-bay two-storey breakfront to south-east. Extended, 1866, with three-bay single-storey flanking lateral wings added to north-west and to south-east. Burnt, 1894. Extensively reconstructed, post-1894 - 1896, producing present aspect. Hipped slate roofs (behind parapets to wings) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks (on axis with ridge to main block), and cast-iron rainwater goods (on moulded corbels to main block). Flat roof to portico not visible behind blocking course. Painted rendered walls with cut-stone dressings to wings including frieze, moulded cornices, and blocking course to parapets. Square-headed window openings (in tripartite arrangement to breakfront to side (south-east) elevation) with rendered sills, moulded rendered surrounds, and moulded entablatures to ground floor main block and to wings on consoles. Replacement 1/1 timber sash windows, post-1894 - 1896, with 1/1 sidelights to tripartite openings. Elliptical-headed door opening under prostyle tetrastyle Ionic portico approached by flight of six cut-limestone steps (having paired columns on pedestals with responsive pilasters supporting frieze, moulded cornice, and zinc-lined blocking course) with rendered Composite surround supporting archivolt, timber panelled double doors with engaged Composite flanking columns supporting entablature, decorative sidelights, and fanlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds with gravel forecourt, and landscaped grounds to site. (ii) Attached seven-bay single-storey cast-iron conservatory, 1866, to south-west with five-bay single-storey side elevations. Hipped glazed roof in iron frame with hipped glazed lantern to apex having decorative cresting and finials. Square-headed window openings with fixed-pane iron windows (with pointed-arch panels) having casement sections over, and iron casement windows to lantern.
Appraisal
A well-appointed, substantial house, rebuilt in the late nineteenth century to designs prepared by R. St. G. Moore (fl. 1894), which has been well maintained to present an early aspect with important salient features and materials intact, both to the exterior and to the interior. The remains of medieval fabric to the basement are of archaeological importance, and attest to a long-standing presence on site. An elegant portico and fine rendered detailing throughout enhance the architectural value of the composition. The survival of an early iron conservatory is also of significance, and augments the setting quality of the house. The house is of additional importance in the locality for its associations with the Carew family.