house — Bennettsbridge

Detached five-bay two-storey house, c.1750, with three-bay two-storey rear (north) elevation having single-bay two-storey bowed central bay. Refenestrated, c.1975. Hipped slate roof (continuing into half-conical section to bowed bay) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings (round-headed window opening to first floor bowed bay) with cut-stone sills, concealed red brick dressings, and replacement aluminium casement windows, c.1975. Round-headed door opening with cut-granite surround, and replacement glazed aluminium panelled door, c.1975, having overlight. Square-headed door opening to left ground floor (possibly originally window opening) with cut-limestone step, and timber door having overpanel. Set back from line of road in own grounds with unpainted roughcast boundary wall having rendered coping, unpainted rendered piers, unpainted roughcast curved walls leading to unpainted rendered piers having wrought iron double gates, and secondary gateway to north having cut-limestone piers with wrought iron double gates. (ii) Detached two-bay single-storey outbuilding, c.1825, to west. Refenestrated, c.1975. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, yellow terracotta flue to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted random rubble stone walls with unpainted roughcast wall to side (north) elevation. Square-headed window openings with dressed stone sills, lintels, and replacement aluminium casement windows, c.1975. Square-headed door openings with lintels, and timber boarded doors.