The Vale

Detached two-pile two-storey house, built c. 1900, three-bays to first floor front, five-bay to ground floor front and having rear pile c.1820 projecting one further bay to south, the whole remodelled c.1890. Gabled breakfront and lean-to porch to front, canted-bay window and conservatory to south-east. Attached single-storey with attic former outbuilding to rear now incorporated into house. Pitched slate roofs, hipped to south-east end of rear pile, with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and having red brick eaves course to rear pile and tiled roof to canted-bay window. Dry dashed walls to front elevation, smooth rendered to all other elevations, with render quoins to first floor of porch and red brick quoins to rear pile. Square-headed window openings throughout, having timber sliding sash windows to front elevation and to former outbuilding, six-over-one pane to first floor front and to canted-bay, double to end bays and one-over-one pane to ground floor front and to former outbuilding, all windows having concrete sills. Replacement uPVC windows to rear elevation, with red brick block-and-start surrounds. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door, flanked by square-headed side-lights with leaded glazing bars, having render canopy above and moulded render cornice over with recent lean-to slate roof. L-plan two-storey outbuilding to rear with pitched and hipped corrugated-iron roof and roughcast rendered walls. Decorative cast-iron gates to road entrance, with vehicular and pedestrian gateways set to chamfered square-plan piers with pyramidal caps and flanked by rendered sweep walls.

The modest design of this well-proportioned house is enlivened by notable features such as the six-over-one pane sash windows to the first floor and canted-bay. The house appears to have been built in two phases, the rear pile contrasting with the front, through features such as the red brick eaves course and window surrounds. The building is set within a mature garden and is further enhanced by the entrance gates to the front of the site.