Exterior

Roughcast rubble stone with stucco entrance block and hipped slate roofs, formerly grouted. Entrance block is 2-storey 3-window with rendered end stacks and tall centre lantern. Lantern has slate-hung base with chamfered angles, and timber top with chamfered panelled angles and round-arched, louvred openings to main sides, dentilled cornice and lead octagonal ogee cap with ball finial and iron vane. First floor has 4-pane sash to left, longer 12-pane sash to centre and 12-pane sash to right. Ground floor 12-pane C20 window each side of broad cambered entry with grey ashlar voussoirs and double ledged doors. Door to ground floor right. Windowless unpainted roughcast, single-storey ranges attached to each side, hipped at ends. Front to courtyard has similar arch, 12-pane sashes above, 12-pane windows below each with door and overlight adjoining. Range to left has doors and 16-pane sashes in DWDWDW order, range to right has similar WDWD then two tripartite 4-12-4 pane sashes then three doors.

Rest of courtyard is enclosed by a detached, U-plan block with hipped E end roofs. E front has three blocked centre coach entries with cambered heads, then to right doors and 18-pane sashes in order DWDWDW, the last window narrow; to left, DWDWDW, 24-pane sashes except for narrow 18-pane sash in NE angle. N range has three long 18-pane windows, door, 24-pane window and door. S side has two doors, four 24-pane windows and another door.

Reasons for Listing

Group value with former Orielton mansion and other listed items in the grounds.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29485776

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)