Massmore House

Detached two-bay two-storey cube-shaped house, built c.1910, having full-height box-bays to south and west elevations, full-height stairs projection to east, and later porch to front. Hipped artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Walls of rusticated concrete blocks with heavier rustication to quoins. Square-headed windows, that to stairs being original margined one-over-one pane timber sliding sash with stained glass. Other windows are replacement uPVC. Square-headed timber panelled door to porch. Low wall of rusticated concrete blocks connects house to three-bay two-storey stable block having integral vehicular arch, hipped slate roof and square-headed timber louvered windows.

This house represents an interesting experiment in concrete applied to domestic use. In contrast with mass concrete, used in the county since the 1870s, concrete blocks were an innovation of the early twentieth century. At Massmore the use of the blocks to substitute for rusticated stone was successful, resulting in an unusual and visually appealing house.