Friarsfield House

Detached three-bay two-storey house on irregular plan, built c. 1870, comprising two parallel blocks, having shallow return to rear with lean-to addition, pedimented porch to front, canted-bay window to north-west gable of front block and incorporating two bays of lower two-storey outbuilding in yard to rear. Hipped slate roofs with overhanging eaves, rendered chimneystacks with clay pots and having cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having timber sliding sash two-over-two pane windows, tripartite to ground floor front and cut limestone sills. Tripartite and bay windows set in chamfered sandstone surrounds and have slate rooflets with lead ridge cappings. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash, some tripartite, to north-west elevation and some three-over-six pane to same elevation. Porch has hipped slate rooflet, round-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window to side wall and round-headed door opening with timber panelled door and plain fanlight, with flanking painted rendered pilasters supporting painted rendered archivolt, surmounted by rendered pediment with dentil detail. Cut limestone steps to porch. Window shutters to interior of house. Square-headed opening of ashlar limestone construction to rear yard, having decorative limestone coping. Outbuildings around yard to rear, that to north-west being six-bay two-storey, part of which is incorporated into house, multiple-bay two-storey range to south-west, nine-bay single-storey building to south-east and multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings to south-east, all buildings having pitched slate roofs and roughly coursed rubble limestone walls with red brick voussoirs to openings. Pump to yard. Decorative cast-iron gate piers, gates and railings to entrance, flanked by rubble limestone quadrant walls.