History

Minister's house probably contemporary with Bathafarn Chapel, a Wesleyan chapel built in 1869 by Richard Owens of Liverpool, and with the same detail.

Exterior

Asymmetrical 2-story 3-window house with advanced gabled bay to R. Constructed of red brick with pecked yellow sandstone dressings under a slate roof with brick stacks. Detail includes sandstone quoins, decorated brick eaves cornice, brick plinth with chamfered stone coping. The roof is hipped to R end and front of advanced gabled bay, and half-hipped to L end; it has decorative tile cresting and finials. Shaped brick stack with corbelled cap at junction of main range and advanced bay; 2 lateral brick stacks to W end. The windows are narrow horned sashes without glazing bars in sandstone surrounds, including mullions, with zig-zag decoration to lintels. Central entrance with half-glazed panelled door under an overlight, in a sandstone surround with segmental head. Slated lean-to porch canopy which extends over a 3-light bay window to the L. Advanced gabled bay to R has 2-light window. Upper storey has single light above entrance; 2-light windows to L and R under gabled half-dormers, that to L half-hipped. The gables are open pediments with decoration as eaves cornice, cut by 4-centred relieving arches over herring-bone brickwork. West end of house has 4-pane sash with sandstone lintel to upper storey, between the lateral stacks; E end of house not visible. Rear of house, partly seen, is 3-window with modillion eaves and sandstone lintels to openings. Upper storey has large central stairlight, a 4-pane sash with coloured margin glazing, flanked by 4-pane sashes. Ground floor has central doorway flanked by sashes, that to R a pair of windows under a continuous lintel.

Interior

Interior not inspected.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a well-detailed and little-altered minister's house of the mid-late C19, and for group value with Bathafarn Chapel and the forecourt walls and railings.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29507869

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)