Arran Cottage — KITESTOWN

Detached five-bay single-storey farmhouse with dormer attic, built 1836, on a H-shaped plan originally three-bay single-storey on a symmetrical plan with single-bay (six-bay deep) full-height projecting end bays centred on single-bay single-storey gabled advanced porch. Sold, 1858. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Pitched slate roof on a H-shaped plan including gablets to window openings to dormer attic centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, paired rendered cylindrical chimney stacks on rendered panelled bases on axis with ridge having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins with timber finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on decorative timber eaves boards retaining cast-iron downpipes. Creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered piers to corners. Square-headed central door opening with threshold, and creeper- or ivy-covered surround framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings in tripartite arrangement with square-headed window openings (dormer attic), cut-granite sills, and "bas-relief" surrounds framing one-over-one (ground floor) or two-over-two (dormer attic) timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (end bays) with cut-granite sills, timber cruciform mullions, and "bas-relief" surrounds framing four-over-four timber sash windows having overlights. Square-headed window openings (side elevations) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing eight-over-eight timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with granite ashlar piers to perimeter having stringcourses below shallow pyramidal capping supporting "Fleur-de-Lys"-detailed cast-iron double gates.