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Detached three-bay single-storey house with dormer attic, c.1900, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to centre. Pitched (hipped gabled) slate roof (gabled to dormer attic windows and to porch) with clay ridge tiles having finials to apexes, rendered and red brick Running bond chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging eaves. Irregular coursed squared limestone walls to front (south-west) elevation with cut-limestone quoins to corners, surrounds to gables forming 'open bed pediments', and unpainted rendered walls to remainder. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds, voussoirs (lintel to porch), and timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with two cut-limestone steps, and glazed timber panelled double doors. Set back from road in own grounds with unpainted roughcast boundary wall having tooled limestone ashlar piers, and iron gate.

A pleasant small-scale house comparable in terms of form and arrangement with the nearby gate lodge to Willmount House (12325011/KK-39-25-11) completed almost a century earlier. However, the later house incorporates a higher level of detail apparent in the appealing visual effect produced by the construction in squared and cut limestone together with the various gables to the steeply-pitched roof producing a somewhat Tudor quality in the composition. Well maintained the house presents an early aspect with most of the historic attributes intact, thereby contributing positively to the character of the streetscape.