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Altamira House

farmyard complex
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Altamira House
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Detached multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding between paired farmyards to Altamira House, built c. 1810, having lean-to concrete-walled extension to rear. Hipped and pitched slate roof, with overhanging red brick eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with cut limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills and some double four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed carriage entrance to central bay having cut limestone surround and recent sheet metal doors. Square-headed door openings to outer bays with cut limestone surrounds and timber battened doors. Detached multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to west side of west yard, having pitched slate and corrugated-iron roof with rubble limestone chimneystack and some cast-iron rainwater goods, random rubble limestone walls with red brick voussoirs to segmental-headed carriage entrances, having large opening to north end with roughly dressed limestone voussoirs. Detached multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to south, serving both yards. Corrugated-iron roof and roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with cut limestone sills and some timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening to east end having cut limestone surround. Roughly coursed dressed limestone gate piers to north entrance of east yard. Cobbled surfaces to yards.
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