Mount Rivers House — Ferney Road

Detached four-bay three-storey house, built c.1765, having bowed bays to corners of front (north) elevation, canted internal porch to front elevation behind Tetrastyle portico to front. Ruinous roofless lean-to extension to rear (south). Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, ceramic ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Slate hanging to side (east) elevation. Rendered quoins to bowed corners of front elevation. Diminishing square-headed window openings with stone sills throughout. Nine-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor of front elevation, six-over-six pane to first floor and six-over-three pane to second floor. Twelve-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor of bowed corners, eight-over-eight pane to first floor and six-over-three pane to second floor. Three-over-three pane, six-over-three and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to rear and side elevations. Round-headed stairwell window opening with stone sill to lower flight of rear elevation, having timber-framed fanlight, frame and replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening to porch within timber doorcase comprising engaged Doric columns and cornice, having glazed timber door and fixed multiple-pane flanking windows. Sunburst fanlight to location of original door opening behind porch. Render and timber portico comprising carved limestone stepped approach, Doric columns and pilasters surmounted by frieze and cornice. Attached single-storey pitched roofed outbuilding to side (east). Rubble stone garden walls to rear with attached single-storey lean-to outbuilding, central entrance tower and round-headed arched recesses. Concrete boundary walls to front with gate piers to north-east. Rubble stone boundary walls to rear and sides. Set within own grounds.