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Fort House — FORT MIDDLE

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Fort House — FORT MIDDLE
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Detached three-bay two-storey house, dated 1832, having four-bay two-storey return to side (west). Two-storey stairwell block and additional single-bay single-storey extension to rear (north). Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof to return. Roughcast rendered walls throughout. Diminishing square-headed window openings with render sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows throughout. Replacement timber casement window to first floor of side (east) elevation and replacement uPVC casement window to side (east) elevation of return. Round-headed stairwell window opening with render sill to rear elevation, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window with spoked fanlight to upper sash. Square-headed door openings throughout, replacement timber panelled door to front elevation surmounted by single-pane overlight. Timber battened door surmounted by single-pane overlight to side (east) elevation of return. Timber battened door to rear elevation of extension. Attached seven-bay two-storey stable block to rear elevation of return having integral porte-cochere. Pitched slate roof with rubble stone eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed dressed rubble stone walls with integral elliptical-headed porte-cochere, having tooled limestone voussoirs with dated keystone. Integral elliptical-headed carriage arch having tooled limestone voussoirs, piers and double-leaf wrought-iron gates. Square-headed window openings with dressed stone voussoirs, tooled limestone voussoirs and single-pane timber casement windows with wrought-iron window guards to ground floor openings. Double-leaf timber battened shutters to first floor. Cobbled courtyard with recent stable blocks to north and east. Roughcast rendered piers with render capping and recent wrought-iron gates to front elevation of courtyard. Rendered boundary walls with rendered coping and square-profile piers and wrought-iron gates to south-west of house.

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