Fountainhill

Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1769[?], on a symmetrical plan. For sale, 1852. Occupied, 1911. For sale, 1969. Now in ruins. Remains of hipped slate roof on timber construction with clay ridge tiles, paired fine roughcast central chimney stacks having cut-limestone stringcourses below capping, and no rainwater goods surviving on cut-limestone eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered fine roughcast walls. Segmental-headed[?] central door opening with overgrown threshold, and cut-limestone block-and-start surround with no fittings surviving. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing remains of six-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Interior in ruins including (ground floor): central entrance hall retaining timber surrounds to some door openings framing remains of timber panelled doors; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing remains of timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to some window openings. Set in unkempt grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having lichen-covered capping supporting wrought iron "farm gate".