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Detached three-bay two-storey limestone house, c.1840, on a symmetrical plan. Extended, c.1900, comprising three-bay two-storey parallel range along rear elevation to north with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch added to centre to front (south). Renovated and extended, c.1995, comprising single-bay single-storey flat-roofed return to rear to north. Gable-ended roof (M-profile) (gabled to porch). Replacement artificial slate, c.1995. Red clay ridge tiles (crested to porch). Yellow brick chimney stacks. Timber eaves. Replacement uPVC rainwater goods, c.1995. Flat-roof to return. Bitumen felt. Snecked cut-limestone walls. Rendered walls to parallel range and to return. Unpainted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills (concrete to parallel range and to return). Yellow brick block-and-start surrounds. Replacement uPVC windows, c.1995 (2/2 sash to front (south) elevation; casement to rear (north) elevation. Square-headed door openings. Replacement glazed uPVC doors, c.1995. Set back from road in own grounds. Tarmacadam grounds to site. Detached three-bay two-storey rubble stone outbuilding, c.1840, to north. Reroofed, c.1995. Gable-ended roof. Replacement corrugated-iron, c.1995. Iron ridge tiles. Iron rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings. Stone sills. Red brick block-and-start surrounds. Stone lintels to openings to first floor. Timber fittings.

This house is an attractive symmetrically-planned building of fine construction with a front (south) elevation composed of graceful proportions. Although extended, once at the turn of the twentieth century, and once again in the late twentieth century, the additional ranges do not detract from the original appearance of the house. The house boasts a variety of materials in its construction, which is typical of the emerging fashion for polychromy at the time of construction. The house has lost a number of its early features and fittings and the re-instatement of timber fenestration and a natural slate roof might restore a more accurate representation of the original appearance. The house is complimented by a range of outbuildings to the north, of similar high-quality stone construction, and the resulting group is an attractive example of an almost intact mid nineteenth-century middle size farm holding.