Mount Temple House

Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1886, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to ground floor; single-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey central return (north). Occupied, 1901; 1911. Now disused. Hipped slate roof centred on pitched slate roof (north); pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having cut-limestone stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gable (porch), and no rainwater goods surviving on slightly overhanging ogee-detailed exposed timber rafters. Rendered walls on overgrown plinth with margined tooled cut-limestone quoins to corners. Round-headed window opening (porch) with cut-limestone sill, and concealed dressings framing fixed-pane timber fitting. Square-headed opposing door openings ("cheeks") with concealed dressings framing timber panelled doors. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and margined tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (remainder) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, cantilevered staircase on a dog leg plan with balustrade now missing, carved timber surround to door opening to half-landing framing timber panelled door, and carved timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled doors. Set in unkempt grounds with piers to perimeter having lichen-covered cut-limestone pyramidal capping supporting tubular steel "farm gate".