Elm Court Pierremont, Dentdale East, Dentdale West, Tower House, Pierrement Hall.

TOWER ROAD 1. (West Side) 5195 Elm Court Pierremont, Dentdale East, Tower House, Pierremont Hall. NZ 2715 1/392

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1. Formerly Pierremont, home of Henry Pease. Mid-late C19 picturesque group which has been subdivided from one original dwelling. Collegiate Gothic in style, of coursed freestone With ashlar dressings. Mainly of 2 storeys, with many gables. Five-bay south front has central projecting battlemented square tower whose 4 angle turrets have hat-shaped caps; and an oriel with perpendicular tracery. Other windows are stone mullioned and transomed, some Tudor arched with dripmoulds; and some have glazing with margin lights. Elm Court has a range of colonnades, with polished granite columns (some paired) and elliptical arches, stretching south-eastwards and ending in an open grotto or artifical ruin with artfully disposed rough rocks holding foliage and having mirrors set in the walls. This addition was built in 1873, architect Sir A Waterhouse. Pierremont Hall has an earlier plainer north range, the original house before the Gothic additions.

Listing NGR: NZ2792715241