house — MOUNTAINCASTLE SOUTH

Detached five-bay single-storey thatched cottage, c.1750. Renovated, c.1950, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch added. Undergoing renovation, 2003. Hipped and pitched roof with reed thatch having rope work to ridge, and rendered chimney stack. Hipped roof to porch undergoing re-roofing, 2003. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered quoins to ends having diamond infill panels. Square-headed window openings with replacement concrete sills, c.1950, and decorative bas relief rendered surrounds. Replacement 2/2 timber sash windows, 2003. Square-headed door opening with replacement glazed tongue-and-groove timber panelled half-door, 2003. Set back from road in own grounds with courtyard to front. (ii) Detached single-bay single-storey outbuilding, c.1850, to south. Refenestrated, 2003. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window opening with replacement concrete sill, c.1950, and replacement 2/2 timber sash window, 2003. Square-headed door opening with timber boarded door. (iii) Detached five-bay single-storey outbuilding, c.1850, perpendicular to south-west with segmental-headed carriageway to left. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods on squared rubble stone eaves. Random rubble stone walls. Square-headed window opening with no sill, rendered lintel, and timber fittings. Square-headed door openings (one with replacement concrete lintel, c.2000) with timber boarded doors. Segmental-headed carriageway with rubble stone voussoirs, and timber boarded double doors.