Description

Earlier 19th century with mid 19th century additions. Single storey, 5-bay, rectangular-plan; original 3-bay cottage block with later pavilion bays to right and left. Heavily stonecleaned\stripped and repointed rubble at centre block, painted harled at pavilions.

NE (MAIN) ELEVATION: 3 bays slightly advanced at centre; door with timber porch, half-pagoda, copper roof; 9-panelled, flush door, 6-pane fanlight. Flanking windows, swept lead canopies on timber corbels. Half-piended, canted wallhead dormer at centre, modern rooflight to left. Taller block to outer left; blind lancet at centre ground; bipartite piend-roofed dormerhead. Block recessed to outer right, window at centre ground with small window to corner left; half-piend dormer at centre; shouldered stack to right.

SW (REAR) ELEVATION: L-plan. 3-bay single storey, asymmetrical block to left with advanced wing to outer right. Modern door at ground outer left, bipartite window off-centre to right, blocked door immediately to right, narrow door at re-entrant angle; square dormer at centre with shouldered stack immediately to left; piend-roofed dormer above door. 2-storey, jerkin-roofed wing (exposed rafters) advanced to outer right; canted window at ground; tripartite window at 1st floor; lean-to timber conservatory to outer right.

SE ELEVATION: 2-bay block with timber, lean-to conservatory at ground outer left; pointed arch windows symmetrically disposed at 1st floor. 2-bay block advanced to outer right with bipartite square dormerheads, single window at ground outer right.

12-pane and 4-pane sash and case windows; 6-pane casement windows for dormers and dormerheads, except main elevation dormer with 8-pane sash and case window. Grey slate roof; ashlar coping to mutual skews; rendered and coped ridge stacks; tall, shouldered and coped stacks on right block.

OUTBUILDINGS: 2 rectangular-plan outbuildings to NW of house; that nearest house substantially altered; cement render with concrete dressings and margins; corrugated roof; lead finial at SW gable; roof level altered.

Barn running parallel to outer left more intact. Early 19th century with some later alterations and additions.

Single storey, rectangular-plan outbuilding of semi-ecclesiastical apppearance; concrete cross finial at SW; pyramidal finial at NE gable. Rubble with droved ashlar margins and dressings; brick infill at upper stages of NE elevation; quoin strips.

SW ELEVATION: boarded hoist door at centre; margined, half-lozenge flight-hole at centre of gablehead; concrete cross apex finial.

SE ELEVATION: 5 asymmetrical bays; door to outer right with 2 windows at centre, door at penultimate bay to outer left with window to outer left bay. Upper stage above openings with hand-made brick infill. Gully immediately along elevation.

4-pane above timber boarding. Grey slate roof, rooflights; ashlar coping to skews.

GATES AND GATEPIERS: paired, octagonal, ashlar gatepiers; cornice; octagonal, pyramidal caps. Cast-iron gates and pedestrian gates, pointed railings with decorative band of pierced quatrefoils.

Statement of Interest

The house and barns are shown on the 1st edition map.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56631027

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)