Description

ASHOVER SK36SW GIN LANE 1264-0/7/44 (West side (off)) Ravensnest and attached farm buildings II Marked on Ordnance Survey map as Ravensnest Farm. House and farm buildings. House late C17 with late C18 and mid C20 alterations. Coursed squared sandstone with slate roof. Chimneys on ridge of main range and at junction with cross-wing. T-plan. North facade has cross-wing at left of 2 storeys plus attic and one bay. Its windows are of 2 lights separated by mullions and have architraves and moulded cornices. The sill of the ground-floor window has been lowered. At the apex of the roof there is a cornice above an illegible inscribed plaque. Straight joints in the stonework of the main range to the right suggest that it may originally have been of one storey with attic dormers. The bay to the left of the doorway has 2-light mullioned windows with architraves (the ground-floor sill lowered). To the right of the door, which has a quoined surround, there is a glazing bar sash window set within the surround of a blocked mullioned window, with a second blocked mullioned window to the right. On the lst floor there are 2 casement windows with stone surrounds. At the far right, built partly into the slope of the ground and showing evidence of alteration, is a further bay which has a window with plain reveals on the ground floor and one with a stone surround on the 1st floor. The left-hand (east) wall of the cross-wing has 2 bays which have 2-light mullioned windows with architraves. Between them is a 3rd bay, inserted c1950 in a similar style, with a lst-floor window and ground-floor doorway. The rear wall of the cross-wing has similar 2-light windows lighting a stair. The south wall of the main range has irregular fenestration and includes a window set within a C17 moulded door surround with triangular head. On the 1st floor there is a plaque inscribed: 'I ? GR 1796'. To the south is a courtyard enclosed on the north by the house and on the other 3 sides by stables, cow-houses, and other farm buildings, attached to the house and continuous except for an entrance on the west side. The eastern range has a stone slate roof and is of a single storey, with 3 doorways with stone surrounds, and 2 windows between the 2 right-hand doorways. At the left the building is lower where it abuts the house and has a window with a doorway to its right. The south range is also of a single storey and has a roof of slate or artificial slate, a doorway with quoined surround which has windows to left and right, and 2 doorways with stone surrounds further right. The west range is taller and has a roof of slate and concrete tile. On the ground floor there are 6 windows, with a doorway to the right of the 2nd window. On the 1st floor there are 2 pitching holes. A lower part to the right has 2 windows, and a doorway with a lintel inscribed 'I - 79 I'. Also on the west side of the courtyard, adjoining the house, is a 2-storey building with coped gable which includes a doorway in its east wall.

Listing NGR: SK3472361675

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