farm house — CASTLETOWN [KILM. BY. CONG PH.]

Detached five-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1894, originally four-bay single-storey[?] with single-bay single-storey lean-to projecting porch. Extended, pre-1924, producing present composition[?]. Disused, 2007. Derelict, 2011. Pitched reed or straw thatch roof on collared timber construction overhanging gablet to window opening to dormer attic to rear (north) pitch with degraded ridge retaining steel scallops, fine roughcast chimney stacks having chamfered capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and concrete or rendered coping to gables. Cement rendered battered wall to front (south) elevation bellcast over rendered plinth with rendered strips to corners supporting rendered band to eaves; limewashed line rendered surface finish (remainder). Square-headed window openings with dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes with two-over-two timber sash (ground floor) or timber casement (dormer attic) windows to rear (north) elevation. Square-headed opposing door openings with fittings not visible. Set back from road in unkempt grounds with cast-iron colonette piers to perimeter supporting looped flat iron double gates.