Melrose House — Urlingford Road

Detached three-bay two-storey house, c.1850, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay two-storey central return to east. Reroofed, c.1950. Renovated, c.1975, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting open porch added to centre ground floor. Hipped roof on a T-shaped plan (pitched to return) with replacement artificial slate, c.1950, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat lined roof to porch behind parapet. Ivy-clad unpainted rendered walls with painted rendered walls to porch having rendered coping to parapet. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, six-over-six (ground floor) and three-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows having one replacement uPVC casement window to centre first floor. Segmental-headed door opening with glazed timber door having sidelights, and fanlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds. (ii) Attached two-bay double-height outbuilding, c.1850, to east with elliptical-headed carriageway to left. Reroofed, c.1950. Pitched roof with replacement corrugated-asbestos, c.1950, concrete ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted roughcast walls over random rubble stone construction. Elliptical-headed carriageway to left with timber boarded double doors. (iii) Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding, c.1850, to north-east with elliptical-headed carriageway to centre. Pitched slate roof with iron ridges, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Random rubble limestone walls. Camber-headed window opening with no sill, yellow brick voussoirs, and louvered panel fitting. Square-headed door openings (in camber-headed recess to right having yellow brick voussoirs) with timber boarded doors. Elliptical-headed carriageway to centre with tooled cut-limestone voussoirs, recessed reveals, and no fittings.