Leslie Hill — CORKEY

Detached three-bay two-storey house built, c. 1820 and extended c. 1860, having two-storey split-level extension to rear and with projecting single-bay single-storey flat-roofed entrance porch to north-east built c. 1860. Possibly originally a mill manager’s or mill owner’s house. Now out of use. Hipped natural slate roof with central leaded valley to south-west having projecting cut stone eaves course, smooth rendered chimneystacks with ashlar copings over, and with remains of cast-iron rainwater goods. Clipped gablet over stairs to south-west (rear elevation). Flat roof to entrance porch (now overgrown). Remains of roughcast lime render over rubble stone construction with smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls to porch. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, red brick reveals and voussoirs, and having six-over-six pane hornless timber sliding sash windows to ground floor openings and six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor openings; timber louvered shutters to first floor openings. Square-headed doorway to the front face (north-east) of porch having timber panelled entrance door with bolection mouldings, overlight, and sidelights. Round-headed opening to interior of porch having square-headed half-glazed timber panelled door flanking with half-glazed sidelights with decorative geometric glazing bars, moulded timber lintel, and with spider’s web fanlight over. Timber panelled doors and architraves, cornices and ceilings roses with cast-iron and stone fireplaces to interior. Set back from road in own grounds in the rural countryside to the south of Manorcunningham. Complex of outbuildings arranged around a courtyard to the rear (south-west); now ruinous having pitched natural slate and corrugated-metal roofs, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings. Set in overgrown gardens with mature hedgerows and trees surrounding. Modern field gateway to the north-west at site of original entrance.