Description

GREAT NESS C.P. GREAT NESS SJ 31 NE 4/121 Ness Strange (flats 1-8) 27.5.53 and Ness Strange Stables (formerly listed as Ness Strange)

GV II

Small country house, now divided. Dated 1778 (rainwater heads) for Rowland Edwards Esq. Probably early C19 alterations and additions, with further alterations and additions dated 1900 (rainwater heads). Red brick with some grey sandstone ashlar dressings. Two-span slate roofs. House at right angles to road with probably early C19 service wing adjoining to north-west. Three storeys with service wing of 2 storeys and gable- lit attic. South-west (entrance) front: stone plinth, first-floor stone cill band, stone frieze and moulded cornice,and parapet with stone coping. Pairs of integral brick end stacks and pairs of brick ridge stacks. 3:2:3 bays, with pair of full-height canted bays; glazing bar sashes with gauged brick heads and stone cills. Pair of central ground- floor sashes replacing former entrance (removed to the service wing, either in the early C19 or c.1900) with red sandstone lintels (see also difference in colour of brick). Right-hand return front: 4 bays; mostly blind windows. C18 lead downpipe to left has a semi-circular rainwater head with moulded cornice, a lion motif and the date 1778. Rear: 4 x 3 bays. Full-height half-octagonal bay to right of 1900 (see sashes with red sandstone lintels. Lead downpipes to each side of bay, that to the right with rainwater head dated 1778 (probably resited when bay added) and that to the left with rainwater head dated 1900. Entrance in third bay from left with 6-panelled door (4 upper panels raised and fielded and lower 2 panels beaded flush), panelled reveals and soffit, moulded architrave and remains of brackets to moulded cornice; later grey sandstone ashlar surround (possibly c.1900) with unfluted pilasters, frieze,cornice and blocking course with second cornice above that. Service wing: plinth, dentil brick eaves cornice (double toothed-brick eaves cornice to rear) and parapeted gable end with stone coping. Front range with 2 brick ridge stacks and integral brick end stack and rear range with 2 brick ridge stacks. South-west front: 6 bays; glazing bar sashes with grey sandstone cills and red sandstone lintels. Two first-floor blind windows to left. Resited C18 door and doorcase in second bay from right with 6- panelled door (upper 4 panels raised and fielded, lower 2 beaded flush), radial fanlight with husk garlands, and grey sandstone ashlar Doric doorcase consisting of side lights with lugged and shouldered-architraves, frieze and cornice with mutules, and centre breaking forwards with unfluted three-quarter columns flanking door and supporting sections of entablature with triglyph frieze and open triangular pediment above. Four-panelled door (probably inserted in place of former window) in second bay from left with 2-part rectangular overlight. Left-hand gable end of 4 bays, with sashes in attic too. Interior of main block partly inspected: rear entrance hall has late C18 or early C19 three-flight staircase with landings, open string, fluted stick balusters (2 per tread), and ramped handrail, wreathed to columnular foot newel. Panelled segmental arch to staircase with fluted imposts and carved brackets. Panelled window shutters noted in other rooms. Ness Strange was formerly the seat of the Edwards family. The service wing appears to be of the early C19 but it is not clear if the C18 doorcase was resited then or c.1900. Both the sashes in the service wing and the bay at the rear dated 1900 have red sandstone lintels. This could suggest that the service wing is also of 1900 but this seems unlikely. The former service wing is now known as Ness Strange Stables. None of the stable buildings to the south-west of the house, except for the former granary and cartshed (q.v.), are included on this list. Ed. Peter Reid, Burke's and Savills Guide to Country Houses, Vol. II, p. 104.

Listing NGR: SJ3960718897

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