Westport House

Farmyard complex, extant 1817, on a quadrangular plan about a courtyard including (north-west): Attached five-bay two-storey farm steward's house with half-dormer attic on a symmetrical plan. Occupied, 1911. Now in alternative use. Pitched slate roof with rolled lead ridge terminating in rendered chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast walls over coursed random rubble limestone construction. Round- or segmental-headed central door opening with tooled cut-limestone step threshold, and drag edged rusticated cut-limestone block-and-start surround framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Interior including (ground floor): central entrance hall-cum-staircase hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds shared with Westport House.