Hebble House Including Boundary Walls In Front Of House Gate Piers And Gate

Hebble House is a large house with boundary walls, gate piers, and a gate, dating to the mid-to-late 19th century. It is built of ashlar and has a Welsh slate roof. The house is two storeys with an attic and cellar, with two bays, the right bay slightly projecting and gabled. It has a chamfered plinth.

To the left is a round-arched doorway with a four-panel door and etched glass fanlight. The architrave features pilasters on plinths and has floral decoration as a keystone, with floral-decorated corbels carrying colonnettes with similarly-decorated capitals and a supporting cornice. Below the steps to the entrance is a board door, possibly leading to a privy. The windows are round-arched sashes. The right-hand bay has paired sashes to the ground and first floors. The ground floor sash has a hollow-moulded surround with foliage decoration, very fine carved relief foliage and a swan-like bird as a keystone. A low decorative iron railing sits on projecting sills supported on corbels with lions' heads that flank a panel with relief carving of an owl and foxes. Short, corbelled colonnettes, similar to those at the doorway, support the cornice below the first-floor window. This window lacks a central jamb and has a hoodmould with foliage-decorated stops and keystone. An iron railing with maple-leaf-like finials runs along the front. A single four-pane sash is located in the left bay above the door, similarly treated and with a matching balcony. A narrow sash with a similar hoodmould is present in the gable of the right bay, which also has copying on moulded kneelers and a finial. An eaves cornice runs around the house. A shouldered cross-ridge stack is located in the centre, and is rendered.

A low front wall links to the house via side walls and another flanking the accessway to a basement door, which ramps down from the house. The walls are built of coursed squared stone with chamfered ashlar coping; the link walls have simple posts carrying an iron rail. The end gateways in the front wall retain an iron gate with a hooped top and arrow finial on the left side. Both gateways have short, square-sectioned, chamfered ashlar piers with ogee-moulded capitals and broached tops, supporting domical finials. The right-hand piers are engraved with the words "HEBBLE HOUSE".

The quality of the decorative stonework is high and is unusual for a house of this type. The boundary walls extend in front of the house and include gate piers inscribed with the name “Hebble House”.