Mountain View

Detached four-bay single-storey farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1922, on a T-shaped plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. Renovated, ----. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables with cement rendered chimney stacks to apexes having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Replacement cement rendered battered walls bellcast over rendered plinth with rendered quoins to corners. Square-headed off-central door opening into farmhouse. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from line of road on a corner site with roughcast-panelled rendered piers to perimeter having chamfered capping supporting wrought iron gate.

A farmhouse representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of Cleristown with the architectural value of the composition, one most likely repurposing a lobby entry house marked on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey (surveyed 1840; published 1841), suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; the feint battered silhouette; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roofline. Furthermore, adjacent limewashed outbuildings (extant 1922) continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene.