Highpark House

Detached five-bay three-storey country house, built in 1812, with two-bay two-storey lean-to to east elevation and single-bay two-storey return having dormer attic to rear (west) elevation. Pitched slate roof with limestone eaves course and rendered chimneystacks. Pitched slate roof to return having rendered chimneystack and single-pitched slate roof to extension. Roughcast render over rubble limestone walls. Square-headed opening with limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed opening to return, east elevation having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window and limestone sill. Carved limestone surround to square-headed opening comprising pediment with ornate consoles and fluted roundel motif over double-leaf timber panelled doors having flanking sidelights with limestone surrounds and sills. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to east having pitched slate roof with brick chimneystack. Roughcast render over limestone walls. Square-headed window openings having limestone sills. Square-headed opening with replacement half-glazed door. Elliptical-headed carriage arch having brick surround. Rendered boundary walls to courtyard with elliptical-headed carriage arch having brick voussoirs and double-leaf corrugated-iron doors.

An attractive, well appointed, substantial house, which is composed on a symmetrical plan and is of balanced classical proportions. Highpark House was built for £3000 in 1812. The house also retains its distinctive door surround, which is of some rarity. The house retains its original form and character and outbuildings to the east, which add context and maintain the historic quality of the site.