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Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1880, having veranda to front elevation and canted end bay windows to ground floor. Two-bay two-storey return with lower flat-roofed single-bay two-storey extension to rear. Hipped slate roof with overhanging sheeted eaves having rendered chimneystacks. Hipped slate roof to veranda and return. Painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls with rendered plinth course. Square-headed openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, paired to end bays of first floor, all with limestone sills. Entrance comprising square-headed opening with glazed over lights and sidelights, having timber panelled door with concrete steps. Carved timber posts to verandah. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to rear having pitched slate roofs and brick chimneystack, having roughcast rendered rubble walls, square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and square-headed openings with timber battened doors. Curved entrance gates with cut limestone inner and outer piers with carved caps, having decorative frieze with roundel motif to inner piers and having spear-headed railings on limestone plinths and double-leaf gates. Cut limestone wheelguards to inner piers.

This large, handsome house, which retains much of its form and structure, the bay windows adding interest by punctuating the regularity of the façade and thereby enhancing the building. The veranda frames the entrance and gives the building a central focus. The outbuildings to the rear and the finely-carved piers with cast-iron gates contribute to the setting of the house.