Threecastles House — THREECASTLES DEMESNE

Farmyard complex, c.1775, about a courtyard including: (i) Detached five-bay single-storey coach house with half-attic with single-bay full-height lean-to breakfront having square-headed carriageway to ground floor. Reroofed, c.1950. Pitched roof (continuing into lean-to to breakfront) with replacement artificial slate, c.1950, clay ridge tiles, rendered coping, and iron rainwater goods on rendered red brick eaves. Unpainted roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings to ground floor with lunette window openings over having no sills, timber lintels to ground floor, and timber fittings. Square-headed door opening with timber lintel, and iron door. Square-headed carriageway to breakfront in elliptical-headed recess with concealed red brick voussoirs, and iron double doors. Set back from road in grounds originally shared with Threecastles House about a stone cobbled courtyard. (ii) Detached two-bay single-storey over raised base outbuilding with attic with single-bay single-storey lower end bay to right. Now derelict. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, squared rubble stone coping to gables having rubble stone gabled bellcote to apex (with round-headed aperture having red brick voussoirs, and no remains of cast-iron bell), and no rainwater goods surviving on rendered eaves. Unpainted roughcast walls over random rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings with no sills, timber lintels, and remains of timber fittings. Square-headed door opening with timber lintel, and remains of timber boarded door. (iii) Detached three-bay single-storey farm manager's house. Now disused. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods. Unpainted rendered walls over random rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and timber lintels (now boarded-up). Square-headed door opening with timber lintel (now boarded-up). (iv) Pair of semi-detached three-bay single-storey farm labourers' houses with half-dormer attics. Reroofed. Now in use as outbuilding. Pitched (shared) roofs with replacement corrugated-iron, iron ridge, and no rainwater goods. Unpainted rendered walls over random rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings with no sills, timber lintels, and remains of timber fittings. Square-headed door openings with timber lintels, and timber boarded doors. (v) Remains of freestanding single-bay two-stage folly, c.1775, to east. Unpainted roughcast walls over random rubble stone construction with cut-stone stringcourse supporting unpainted roughcast battlemented parapet. Pointed-arch opening with rubble stone voussoirs, no fittings, oculus opening over having red brick voussoirs, and no fittings. (vi) Gateway, c.1775, to north-west comprising pair of painted squared rubble stone piers with cut-stone capping, iron double gates having cast-iron finials, iron flanking pedestrian gates having cast-iron finials, painted squared rubble stone outer piers having cut-stone capping, and painted random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter of site having rubble stone vertical coping.