Prospect Hall — PROSPECTHALL

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built 1754, on a rectangular plan originally three-bay three-storey with remains of single-bay two-storey advanced wings. Destroyed, 1883. In ruins, 1905. Occupied, 1922. Pitched slate roof with ridge tiles, coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having corbelled stepped capping, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered eaves with cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls; ivy-covered rendered coursed rubble stone walls on cut-limestone plinths (wings) with rusticated cut-limestone quoins to corners. Round-headed central door opening with step threshold, and cut-limestone doorcase centred on keystone with archivolt framing overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement (wings) with cut-limestone sills on cut-limestone risers, and cut-limestone Ionic pilasters supporting ogee-detailed cornices on blind friezes on architraves with no fittings surviving. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement (first floor) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed red brick dressings with no fittings surviving. Set perpendicular to road.