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Former manse, built in 1797 with alterations including a garden wall and pump, dairy, coach house and stable. The original manse is a 2-storey, 3-bay house in a T-plan. The garden wall with foot gate and a single-storey, rectangular-plan dairy block was added in 1830, with a 2-storey addition to the east added in 1846-7. The original building is of rubble construction with margined and droved irregular ashlar dressings. The 1846-7 addition is of rubble construction and stugged quoins with margined angles. The windows have droved margins throughout. The roofs are slated, with the dairy block piended. The porch is rendered as stugged ashlar with a moulded stone cornice and a raised flat leaded roof. Mostly 12-pane sash and case windows to the original house, with later paired plate glass windows to the ground floor south elevation and the first floor west elevation and single and paired multi-pane at the addition. Deep eaves at the gables with stone consoles at the angles, exposed purlin ends and plain bargeboards with lead flashings over the skews. Ridge and end chimney stacks. The north elevation has a blank gable to the west and the coped rubble curtain wall to the footgate further west. The dairy block to the east has two doors, one of which has 'dairy' painted in now faint letters on the west lintel. There is a lean-to porch with a door recessed at the re-entrant and a margin-paned stair window at the main house. A low drystane garden wall is to the north of the house adjacent to thick laurel planting, perhaps concealing the former drying green, with a concave section that incorporates a stone stile and a droved ashlar pump, which has a complete mechanism. To the east is a single-storey, rectangular-plan coach house/stable, built 1830 and made L-plan by a slightly later addition, with a further brick addition, shown on the OS 1st edition map. It is of rubble construction with widely droved and margined ashlar dressings, similar to the dairy, with a piended slate roof and cast-iron rainwater goods. Its south elevation has two boarded doors at the west, two carriage doors to the advanced bays at the east, with boarded doors at the return elevation. The north elevation has two boarded doors and a roofless lean-to at the west.
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