Mount Faris

Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1840. The building is roughly square in plan but with single-storey over basement canted bays to front and small single-storey projection to the rear. To the west side the house is now linked to an outbuilding via a short glazed ‘corridor’ and the south end of the outbuilding has been extended to form a conservatory. The façade is finished in painted roughcast with granite quoins, whilst the hipped roof is slated and has rendered chimneystacks with stone coping and uniform pots. The entrance consists of a partly glazed timber door and segmental fanlight with ‘spider’s web’ tracery, both surrounded by a granite portico with Tuscan columns and respondent pilasters supporting an entablature-like flat roof with cornice. The entrance is reached via a flight of stone steps with simple cast-iron rails at either side of the portico. The windows are generally flat-headed with one over one, two over one, three over six, six over six and twelve over six timber sash frames. Some of the smaller windows to the rear have replacement timer frames, some top-hung, others fixed-lights. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The house is surrounded by a large garden with a large rubble-built outbuilding to the west which fronts onto the roadside.

Well maintained early Victorian house whose effect is enhanced by its delightful setting and which forms an attractive grouping with the nearby church.