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Detached three-bay two-storey house, dated 1682, having red brick porch to front (east) elevation and lean-to addition to rear (west). Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings throughout with stone sills. Four-pane timber framed windows with pivoting and fixed quarry glazed window panes to first floor of front elevation. Timber framed windows to ground floor of front elevation with quarry glazed cast-iron casement windows. Timber framed quarry glazed cast-iron casement windows to rear (west) elevation. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door to front elevation within porch. Square-headed door opening with replacement glazed timber door to rear elevation. Pitched slate roof to porch with red brick walls, having pilasters, cornice and consoles. Surmounted by pediment with square-headed recess having chamfered surround carrying limestone crest and date plaque. Limestone stepped approach. Set within own grounds with garden and courtyard. Rubble limestone retaining walls to front of courtyard with carved and channelled limestone gate piers surmounted by classical urns with wrought-iron gates and rubble limestone steps.

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