Rathfredagh Cheshire Home — RATHFREEDY

Detached multiple-bay two-storey former country house, built c. 1820, with full-height canted bays to front (south), five-bay two-storey wing to side (east) and gable-fronted three-bay two-storey traversing end-bay to side (west). Recent extension to side (east). Now in use as a care home. Hipped and pitched slate roofs with snecked limestone chimneystacks, tooled limestone gable copings, timber clad eaves with brackets and cast-iron rainwater goods. Gabled dormer windows to side (east) wing with aluminium rainwater goods. Snecked sandstone walls with tooled limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and cut limestone block-and-start surrounds throughout, having mixed two-over-two and two-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows with occasional uPVC casement replacements. Portico to front (south) elevation, having flat roof with tooled limestone cornice over limestone and sandstone pilasters with round-headed opening to front, having tooled limestone voussoirs and keystone. Recent wrought-iron gate to opening. Cut limestone stepped approach with rounded flanking plinth. Rendered walls to interior of portico, having square-headed door opening with timber panelled door. Two-bay single-storey lodge to south of site with pitched slate roof and snecked sandstone chimneystack. Snecked sandstone walls with cut limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and block-and-start surrounds, having tripartite windows with two-over-four and one-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-profile cut limestone gate piers to front of lodge, having flanking rubble stone walls with cut limestone coping and timber railing. Set within own grounds.