Description
Built 1830/40. 2-storey small-scale country house with Tudor
details, parallel low ranges to W from service court. Stugged
red ashlar coursers with polished dressings and hood-moulds.
N (entrance) and S elevations both with advanced wide gabled
bay nearest E, 3 remaining bays to N with central doorway
with moulded head (panelled door with fanlight), 1st floor
windows break through eaves and have steep gabled
dormer-heads. Sash windows to elevations, lying-panes at
ground, 12-pane glazing pattern at 1st floor. E elevation has
projecting ground floor windows and central wallhead gable
with corbelled stack and individual flues; otherwise corniced
end and axial stacks to house. Shaped skews and skewputts;
finialed gables. Courtyard ranges linked at W by screen wall,
single diamond flue over each W gable. Slate roofs. L-plan
low stables/coachhouse court to W of house similarly
detailed, N range a 3-bay stable, W range a 2-bay coach
house. Gatepiers to N of house, square outer piers linked by
short quadrants to taller, thinner inner piers. All painted
ashlar with pointed caps. Piers at E drive also painted
ashlar.