Bruckless House

Complex of two- and three-storey outbuildings associated with Bruckless House (see 40909802), built c. 1760, comprising main six-bay three-storey block to the west with two later two-bay two-storey dwellings/buildings (possibly a pair of former worker’s houses) attached to the east gable end. Pitched natural slate roof to main block having projecting eaves course, raised rendered verges to the gable ends, and with rendered chimneystack to the east gable end. Pitched natural slate roof to dwellings buildings to the east having projecting eaves course, central rendered chimneystack, and with rendered verge to the east gable end. Rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with mainly fixed timber windows/vents; replacement casement windows to dwellings to the east; single multiple-pane timber window at first floor level to the west end of front elevation of main block (south). Narrow loop hole type window openings to three-storey block at second floor level. Square-headed doorways to main block having roughly squared plinth blocks to base and with timber battened doors and half-doors; square-headed loading bay at first floor level having battened timber door. Flight of stone steps to the west gable end having access to square-headed doorway at first floor level with battened timber door. Square-headed doorways to dwellings to the east having battened timber doors, and stone thresholds/steps, overlight to the doorway to the building to the east. Complex of singlet-storey outbuildings on L-shaped plan to the south of main building having mono-pitched corrugated-metal roofs, rendered walls, and square-headed openings with timber windows and timber doors; square-headed carriage-arches having battened timber double doors. Buildings arranged around a cobbled courtyard to the rear (north) of Bruckless House. Laneway into yard from the north.