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House and farmstead (Home Farm) depicted on historic OS maps, and site of a manor. The 1st edition shows the U-plan house with formal gardens to the southeast, including two statues and a sundial. To the southwest of the house set within the wooded grounds is the quadrangular steading with an attached horsemill on the west end of the southwest wing, a rectangular building within the court, and enclosed garden to the southeast. The layout is essentially unchanged on the 2nd edition,although there have been alterations and additions to both the house and steading, with partial infilling of the steading court and addition of buildings to the southeast and northwest. A sundial is also shown in the garden southeast of the steading. The house, designed by Henry Edmund Goodridge (of Bath, Somerset) in 1844 for Forsyth Grant, is evidently a reconstruction of an earlier house. It is Jacobean in style, 2-storey, with a symmetrical southeast front, a 3-storey central division with 2-storey rectangular bay, crow-stepped gable and flanking turrets. The northeast entrance has a 3-storey and attic battlemented porte-cochere tower, the southwest front a curious square tower broached to a circular top. The house has idiosyncratic detail, shaped gablets and tall-spired roofs. There are extensive pierced balustrades to garden terraces with finials and numerous garden ornaments. Now used agriculturally but house and gardens maintained. A photographic survey of the steading was carried out in 2014 prior to proposed conversion.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)