Romaldkirk House, Glazed Walkway And Rear Yard Walls To Left

Romaldkirk House is a former rectory that has been converted into a private residence. It features a glazed walkway and curved rear yard walls to the left. The building has an altered 17th century L-plan core, with a Tudor-arched doorway that was briefly revealed around 1960, and includes early 18th century and 19th century additions. The garden front was refaced around 1825, while the walkway and yard walls were added around 1860. The structure is built from squared and rubble sandstone, with stone-flagged roofs and stone chimney stacks. The L-plan design includes an added double range to the right.

The garden front is two stories high, with a projecting central bay flanked by three-bay wings, the right wing being slightly taller. There are a pair of partly-glazed three-panel doors in a chamfered doorway with alternating jambs located in the right bay of the left wing. The central ground-floor window is tripartite, while the other windows consist of 12-pane sashes set in moulded surrounds. The roof features coped gables and shaped kneelers, hipped over the central bay.

At the rear, there is an early 18th century range parallel to the right wing, which includes a tripartite ground-floor window in an architrave with a segmental-headed centre light, and two segmental-headed 21-pane sashes with thick glazing bars above, also in architraves. An added two-storey outshut is located at the rear of the old left wing.

Inside, there are two bolection-moulded stone fireplaces with corniced lintels in the first-floor bedrooms, a late 18th century patterned cast-iron grate in the nursery, and several six-panel doors. Features from around 1825 include a spacious staircase hall with a roof light, a single-flight staircase with stick balusters and a ramped handrail, and a first-floor landing corridor with elliptical archways at either end.

The glazed walkway, which is attached to the left part of the garden front, has seven square stone pillars that support a glazed monopitch roof. The two tall curved yard walls attached to the rear of the walkway enclose a turning circle for coaches.

Historically, the house was the home of the Rev. Reginald Bligh, who was a cousin of Captain Bligh of the Bounty.