Barnagrotty House

Detached three-bay single-storey with dormer attic farmhouse, built c.1890, with attic windows to asymmetrical gables. Lean-to extensions to side and rear. Pitched slate roof with gables to all elevations, terracotta ridge cresting, rendered chimneystacks with yellow terracotta pots and scalloped timber bargeboards with quatrefoils. Smooth rendered walls with rendered quoins. Square-headed window openings to all elevations with stucco surrounds, sills and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed door opening to front elevation with stucco surround and replacement timber panelled door and fanlight. Square-headed door opening to side at lean-to extension with glazed uPVC door. Adjacent farmyard with ranges of single- and two-storey random coursed stone outbuildings, with pitched slate roofs. Segmental-headed carriage arch accessing yard, with tooled stone voussoirs to arch-ring, adjacent square-headed pedestrian opening and surmounting bellcote. Detached derelict three-bay single-storey bow-ended gate lodge, located opposite entrance gates. Bowed slate roof and lime-washed walls.

Barnagrotty House is an architecturally attractive late nineteenth-century farmhouse. Though it has been refurbished with new uPVC windows and crisp render, it retains much character. Its finest feature is its asymmetrical roof, with lichen encrusted roof slates, fine terracotta ridge cresting, red bargeboards and tall rendered chimneystacks with bright yellow pots. The setting of the house is contributed to by the intact farmyard with original stone outbuildings. The carriage arch with bellcote links both house and yard, and is a fine feature within the complex. Though derelict, the bow-ended gate lodge, set across the road from the entrance gate, is both simple in design and treatment. Its symmetrical plan and well-constructed roof mark it out as a building of architectural merit within the idyllic rural landscape.