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Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, built c. 1810, facing south, having five-bay side and rear elevations, and porch to front. Now in use as fishing lodge. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Flat roof to porch. Roughcast rendered walls with limestone plinth course between basement and ground floor. Timber sliding sash windows throughout, with mainly square-headed openings, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to second floor and nine-over-six pane to first floor, all with limestone sills. Camber-headed openings to basement level having six-over-six pane windows. Oeuil-de-boeuf window to west elevation with fixed glazed window and render sill. Round-headed window openings to middle bay of rear with six-over-six and six-over-three pane windows with spoked fanlights. Round-headed opening to west elevation with sixteen-over-six pane timber sliding sash window with paned fanlight and render sill. Camber-headed window opening to front of porch having six-over-six pane window with limestone sill. Porch comprising moulded render cornice and entablature with moulded render string courses and with cut limestone plinth course, having pilasters to corners with moulded limestone plinths. Camber-headed door openings with paned overlights and timber panelled double-leaf doors, approached by limestone steps. Four-bay three-storey building, possibly former mill, to east, with pitched slate roof, coursed rubble limestone walls with roughly dressed limestone voussoirs, and square-headed openings with fixed timber fittings to windows and timber battened doors. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to east with pitched and hipped slate roof and brick chimneystack, roughcast rendered walls and square-headed openings with timber louvers and timber battened doors, also having segmental-arch vehicular entrance to one end with corrugated-iron double-leaf doors and segmental-headed opening with timber panelled door. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to west with pitched slate roof, coursed rubble limestone walls, segmental-arched vehicular entrance with timber battened double-leaf doors and dressed limestone voussoirs. Square-profile roughcast rendered coursed limestone piers to road entrance with sweeping walls.

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