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Bloomfield House — Douglas

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Bloomfield House — Douglas
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Detached three-bay two-storey with attic Tudor Revival house, dated 1896, on site of earlier house and having advanced gable-fronted end bay with two-storey canted bay window and flat-roofed porch to east elevation and gable-fronted advanced bay to south elevation. Pitched slate roofs with crested ridge tiles, shaped corbelled red brick chimneystacks having yellow platbands, limestone coping and kneelers to gables, cast-iron finials to apexes of gables and cast-iron rainwater goods on carved limestone brackets. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with ashlar limestone platband and cut limestone stringcourse to porch. Carved stone plaque to east elevation bears date '1896' in raised lettering. Square-headed paired and tripartite window openings with block-and-start limestone surrounds, dressed limestone mullions, transoms and sills and timber casement windows. Tudor-arch door opening with block-and-start limestone surround, hood moulding with label stops and recessed double-leaf timber door having leaded glass to upper panels, overlight and sidelights. Door accessed via limestone steps with tiled mosaic to threshold. Set in own grounds with single-storey coursed rubble stone outbuilding to immediate north-west. Entrance to south comprises rendered square-profile gate piers having wrought-iron gates.

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