Survey Data
Reg No
32306015
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Roslea Cottage
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1810 - 1850
Coordinates
138545, 337329
Date Recorded
18/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1830. Central bay projects forward and incorporates entrance door on west side. Single-pitched roof extension to north, two-storey outbuildings to east. Hipped slate roof, brick corbelled chimneystack located centrally on ridge, clay ridge tiles, wood-cored secret lead hip cappings, half-round cast-iron gutters on corbelled eaves course. Lime-washed roughcast walling, recessed plinth. Square-headed window openings, painted masonry sills, painted smooth-rendered slightly-projecting reveals, painted six-over-six timber sash windows in projecting central bay, two-over-two elsewhere. Square-headed door opening, painted timber two-panel door. Garden overgrown, wrought-iron flat-bar gates, rubble stone boundary wall to roadside.
Appraisal
This distinctive little house sits comfortably in the landscape and retains many original features including sash windows and wrought-iron gates.