The Vale — Murgasty Road

Detached two-pile two-storey house, built c. 1900, three-bays to first floor front, five-bay to ground floor front and having rear pile c.1820 projecting one further bay to south, the whole remodelled c.1890. Gabled breakfront and lean-to porch to front, canted-bay window and conservatory to south-east. Attached single-storey with attic former outbuilding to rear now incorporated into house. Pitched slate roofs, hipped to south-east end of rear pile, with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and having red brick eaves course to rear pile and tiled roof to canted-bay window. Dry dashed walls to front elevation, smooth rendered to all other elevations, with render quoins to first floor of porch and red brick quoins to rear pile. Square-headed window openings throughout, having timber sliding sash windows to front elevation and to former outbuilding, six-over-one pane to first floor front and to canted-bay, double to end bays and one-over-one pane to ground floor front and to former outbuilding, all windows having concrete sills. Replacement uPVC windows to rear elevation, with red brick block-and-start surrounds. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door, flanked by square-headed side-lights with leaded glazing bars, having render canopy above and moulded render cornice over with recent lean-to slate roof. L-plan two-storey outbuilding to rear with pitched and hipped corrugated-iron roof and roughcast rendered walls. Decorative cast-iron gates to road entrance, with vehicular and pedestrian gateways set to chamfered square-plan piers with pyramidal caps and flanked by rendered sweep walls.