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Greenhills House

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Greenhills House
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Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1780, with projecting stairs bay to middle of rear with catslide roof. Now derelict. Shallow hipped natural slate roof with pair of rendered chimneystacks to middle of ridge, render band at eaves level, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Parallel ashlar limestone quoins and rendered plinth to front elevation, and with roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation, two-over-two pane to upper floors of rear and gone or not visible elsewhere, with raised render reveals and tooled limestone sills. Eight-panel timber entrance door to front elevation, set into carved limestone doorcase, having ornate petal fanlight above, and Doric columns supporting open-bed pediment with carved stone frieze and reached by carved stone steps with rendered balustrade having flat stone copings. Two-storey rendered outbuildings to rear forming courtyard with bellcote to west of dwelling. Set away from road in open field, with coursed random rubble limestone wall to rear boundary and rendered wall to front.
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