Raford House

Two-storey farmyard complex, built c.1760, having three ranges of outbuildings forming closed courtyard to rear of Raford House, with integral carriage arch to north range, Raford House to south-east corner, and screen wall to east side. Now also in use as apartments. Pitched slate roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls to ground floors, with smooth render to upper floors. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, having mix of timber louvres to first floor, timber fixed multiple-pane windows to ground floor, and timber sliding sash windows, latter six-over-six pane to ground floor and three-over-three and four-over-four pane to first floor. Square-headed door openings with timber battened half-doors and half-glazed timber battened doors, some with paned sidelights and set within partly blocked carriage arches with dressed limestone voussoirs. Segmental-arched integral carriage arch with cut and tooled limestone voussoirs. Cobblestones to perimeter of courtyard. Rubble stone boundary wall to east has rubble stone staircase with wrought-iron handrail, leading to segmental-arched pedestrian entrance, giving access to ground level of front of site. Cast-iron water pump to yard. Rectangular walled garden with rubble stone walls to west of yard. Six-bay two-storey terrace of former workers' houses, built c.1890, to north-west, having pitched slate roofs, rendered walls, and square-headed openings with replacement fittings and recent porch extensions to front elevation. Cut-stone piers and boundary walls to front boundary of workers' houses.