Survey Data
Reg No
31311123
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Castlemagarret House
Original Use
Worker's house
Date
1897 - 1911
Coordinates
135069, 271725
Date Recorded
11/04/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey head gardener's house with half-dormer attic, occupied 1911, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch. Now disused. Hipped gabled slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (poprch), lichen-covered clay ridge tiles centred on rendered chimney stack having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on timber boarded eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Fine roughcast walls with red brick Running bond stringcourse centred on red brick flush quoins to corners (porch). Camber-headed central door opening with red brick voussoirs framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-limestone sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing timber casement windows. Set in walled garden in unkempt grounds shared with Castlemacgarrett.
Appraisal
A head gardener's house illustrating the continued development or "improvement" of the Castlemacgarrett estate in the early twentieth century with the architectural value of the composition, one evoking comparisons with a nearby gate lodge (see 31311128), suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on an expressed porch; and the timber work embellishing the roofline.