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Prospect — PROSPECT DEMESNE

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Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house with dormer attic, built c.1775, having very slight, pedimented breakfront to front (north) elevation, and later full-height extension to west end, with two-bay west side elevation and projecting bay to rear elevation. Single-bay single-storey over basement addition to east end. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, two in pair to middle of five-bay section, gabled dormer windows with decoratively carved timber bargeboards to front elevation, and to pediment, with carved finial to latter. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with painted sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to front and mixed one-over-one, two-over-two and six-over-six pane windows elsewhere, some to rear in tripartite arrangements. Square-headed timber casement frames to dormer windows. Round-headed timber casement window to pediment. Round-headed doorway with painted carved stone Gibbsian surround, timber panelled door and fanlight, approached by cut limestone steps with nosings and cast and wrought-iron railings. Outbuildings to east of house with hipped tiled roofs and roughcast rendered walls. Road entrance to south with wrought-iron double-leaf gate, rendered piers and flanking walls. Rubble stone boundary walls.

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