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farm house — BLACKCASTLE

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Detached five-bay two-storey house, c.1880, retaining early fenestration with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to centre and single-bay two-storey recessed lower end bay to east. Renovated and extended, c.1970, comprising three-bay two-storey flat-roofed parallel range to rear to north having single-bay two-storey flat-roofed return. Renovated, c.1995, with single-bay single-storey mono-pitch conservatory added to west. Gable-ended roofs with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Rendered coping to gables. Replacement aluminium rainwater goods, c.1970. Flat-roof to porch behind parapet wall. Flat-roof to parallel range and return to rear to north. Bitumen felt. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Rendered strips to corners. Square-headed window openings (one remodelled to ground floor, c.1970). Stone sills (concrete to rear elevation and to conservatory). 2/2 timber sash windows to front (south) elevation with exposed sash boxes. Timber casement windows, c.1970, to rear elevation to north. Fixed-pane uPVC windows to conservatory. Round-headed door opening. Moulded doorcase with archivolt. Replacement glazed door, c.1970. Spoked fanlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds. Gravel forecourt to front. Detached three-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding, c.1880, to north-east. Gable-ended and hipped roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Iron rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls. Cut-granite quoins to corners. Square-headed integral carriageways. Timber doors. Freestanding cast-iron waterpump, c.1905, comprising cylindrical shaft with raised horizontal banding, fluted upper section with fluted spout having acanthus leaf motif and 'cow-tail' handle having ball finial. Now disused with cap missing. Freestanding cast-iron petrol pump, c.1940. Now disused. Inner gateway, c.1880, to south comprising cut-granite circular piers with ball finals having cast-iron gates with oak leaf finials. Gateway, c.1880, to south comprising cut-granite panelled piers with moulded capping having cast-iron gates and railings with spear head finials.

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