Keale House — KEALE SOUTH

Farmyard complex, built c. 1840, and incorporating former house of c. 1740. Yard oriented north-east south-west. Comprising two three-bay two-storey outbuildings to north-west side, having gateway between and southern having two-bay single-storey block to south-west gable. Entrance gates to yard and five-bay two-storey building, formerly house, with return to rear. South-west side has multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding. Walled garden to east. Buildings have pitched slate roofs and rubble sandstone walls. Front elevation of former house has square-headed openings, with timber louvers to first floor windows, fixed six-pane timber casements to ground floor windows, all with painted stone sills, and timber battened half-doors, and round-arched vehicular entrance to middle bay, with corrugated-iron door. Flight of rendered steps to first floor of return, gable having brick bellcote with round-headed bell opening with bell. Multiple-bay building has loop vent windows and segmental-arched vehicular entrances, latter with brick voussoirs and metal and timber closures. North-west buildings have roughly dressed sandstone quoins, and brick voussoirs and surrounds and render sills to openings, ground floor of southern building having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and timber battened half-doors with paned overlights. Flight of stone steps to south gable of northern building. Elliptical-arched vehicular entrance to middle bay of northern of north-western buildings, with brick voussoirs and cast-iron gates. Double-leaf wrought-iron gates to north-east and north-west sides of yard, former having rendered piers with caps and plinths to rendered walls. Walled garden has coursed rubble sandstone walls and roughcast rendered piers with double-leaf cast-iron gates and painted walls.