Description

SY 09 SE NEWTON POPPLEFORD HARPFORD
AND HARPFORD
4/66 Ellon House including
- outbuildings and courtyard wall to
north-west.
- II

House and outbuildings. Circa 1850. Plastered stone rubble or brick; probably
brick stacks with plastered brick chimney shafts; slate roofs.
L-shaped building in which the main block facing west has a 2-room plan with central
entrance hall and staircase. The right (southern) room has a rear lateral stack and
the left (northern) room has an end stack. Single room rear block at right angles on
left end. The service courtyard attached to the left end is on a slightly different
axis. The service room adjoining the left is 1 room and there is a 2-room cottage
at right angles to it projecting forward with a C20 garage in front. The cobble
courtyard in front of the serivce room and cottage is enclosed by a cob wall. 2
storeys.
The main house has a symmetrical 5-window front of circa 1850 fenestration,
comprising French windows to the ground floor with glazing bars and containing glass
panes the same size as the first floor sashes, a central 12-pane sash flanked by 16-
pane sashes, a central 12-pane sash flanked by 16-pane sashes. Central part-glazed
and panelled door with hip-roofed open porch with trellis sides. Roof is gable-
ended. The service room has C19 casements with glazing bars and is gable-ended with
a roof lower than the main block. The cottage is also gable-ended and the same
height as the service room. It has a 2-window front of 12-pane sashes and central
plank door. In the left (west) end is an arch-headed window with glazing bars
turning to a Gothic pattern in the head. The tall wall around the cobbled courtyard
is plastered cob on rubble footings with interlocking tile coping.
Interior retains a good deal of original detail.
An attractive and little modernised house.
Shown as Riverside on OS map.

Listing NGR: SY0910890500

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26434180

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)