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Detached seven-bay two-storey house, built 1727, now in use as guest house and restaurant. L-plan comprising double-pile east block with returning single-pile six-bay single-storey over basement north block. Pitched slate roofs, red brick chimneystacks with paired diagonally-set corbelled flues on rectangular bases with dog-tooth cornices, limestone verge coping, projecting eaves with painted timber sheeted soffit, cast-iron gutters on carved timber fascia, circular cast-iron downpipes. Painted roughcast-rendered walling. Square-headed window openings, smooth rendered reveals, granite sills to east elevation, limestone sills to north elevation, painted timber sliding sash windows; two-over-two with exposed cases to first floor east, six-over-six to ground floor east and west elevations, nine-over-nine to north, some replacement windows; timber casement windows first floor east elevation; semi-circular windows to basement north elevation. Square-headed slightly recessed door opening to east, smooth rendered reveals, painted timber four-panel door with brass furnishings c. 1890, limestone flagstone. Set in own landscaped grounds. Enclosed yard to south-west, rendered carriage entrance with round-headed arch surmounted by gabled bellcote and wrought-iron gates. Single- and two-storey rubble masonry outbuildings, now converted to living accommodation. Crenellated rendered rubble masonry boundary walls. Guard's tower c. 1727, now derelict, to north-east corner. Rubble masonry gate piers and wrought-iron gates.
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