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Summary

Description

Late 18th century with later additions and alterations. Symmetrical 2 storey with raised basement and attic, 3-bay classically detailed gabled house with later 2-storey wing at rear forming L plan ; further addition adjoined to NW; lean-to porch in rear re entrant angle. Tooled cream sandstone rubble (some render repairs); rendered elevation to NE; coursed sandstone in part to rear wing; sandstone ashlar dressings. Raised band course at principal floor; raised lintel course beneath corniced eaves. Rusticated quoins to front (droved at rear); raised margins to front; projecting cills. Single storey ancillary structure to NE.

SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps oversailing basement to central entrance with stone treads, decorative iron balustrades; later part leaded and glazed timber panelled door; leaded fanlight; later surrounding doorpiece comprising flanking columns, outer pilasters, plain frieze, dentilled pediment; single window aligned at 1st floor. Single windows at all floors in flanking bays; tripartite box-dormers aligned above.

SW (SIDE) ELEVATION: original block with single windows at ground and 1st floors in bay to outer right (blind at 1st floor); small single window at ground off-set to left of centre; single windows at all floors in bay to outer left; small round-arched window centred in apex. 2-storey wing slightly recessed to left with bipartite windows at both floors in bay to right; single windows at both floors in bay to left. Blind elevation to 2-storey wing recessed to outer left.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: 2-storey wing projecting to outer right with boarded timber opening at ground. Full-height, lean-to addition in bay recessed to left with boarded timber door in projecting lean-to porch at ground; single window off-set to right above. Single windows at basement and 1st floors in bay recessed to outer left (window blocked at ground).

NE (SIDE) ELEVATION: original block with single windows at ground in bays to outer left and right (blocked at basement and 1st floors); small round-arched window centred in apex. Single windows at ground and 1st floors in bay recessed to right; single window in lean-to porch recessed to right. 2-storey wing recessed to right with single window at 1st floor. Further 2-storey wing recessed to outer right with boarded timber door off-set to left at ground.

Predominantly 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows; small-pane casement glazing to dormers. Grey slate roof; raised stone skews; cast-iron rainwater goods. Corniced brick ridge and apex stacks; octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

ANCILLARY STRUCTURE: single storey, 5-bay. Pointed sandstone rubble; long and short sandstone dressings. SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: blind elevation to lean-to projection off-set to right of centre; part-vented small single windows in flanking bays. Sliding boarded timber doors in penultimate bay to outer left; boarded timber door in bay to outer left. Plate glass and 4-pane timber glazing; small rooflights. Grey slate roof; raised stone skews; cast-iron rainwater goods. INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

WALLED GARDEN: rubble-coped, rubble wall enclosing walled garden to NE (curved corner to NE); decorative iron pedestrian gate; iron gatepiers and adjoining overthrow; boarded timber door.

BOUNDARY WALL: rubble wall partially enclosing site.

Statement of Special Interest

An impressive farmhouse with much of its original detailing intact - the leaded door and intricately carved columnar doorpiece being particularly noteworthy. The farmhouse at Mountfair bears some similarity (see separate list entry). Rutherfurd notes a Mr James Calder as farmer here in 1866. See separate list entry for nearby Swinton Hill Farm Cottages.

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