Heath House

HEATH

SO58NE Heath House 482-1/1/138 15/03/74

GV II

Farmhouse. Early C19 remodelling of earlier core. Rendered west facade; stone rubble. Hipped slate roof with deep eaves. Integral brick eaves stacks. Double pile plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. West facade to garden is 3-window range with centre bay slightly advanced with thermal window in ashlar surround over a ground-level hipped canted bay with glazed doorway and top light, both with perimeter glazing. Second floor has a blocked mullioned 3-panel window surround with supporting bracket scrolls to each jamb. Side bays have single 2/2 sash to ground and first floors, and horizontally-sliding sash to second floor, all with plain ashlar surrounds. East front to farmyard: 3-window range with central 2-storey projecting canted bay with parapet dividing the 2 roof hips. Box gutter to ornamental downpipe hopper to one side of bay. Central bay has tall 3-light casement flanked by leaded 3-light casements with brick segmental arches. Second floor has flanking windows only of leaded 3-light casements. Ground floor has tall central glazed panelled door flanked on each side by plain boarded door and 2-mullion and transom window with brick segmental-arched lintel. Sides: partly masked by ground-floor lean-to extensions each side and with central windows with brick segmental arches now blocked or altered. INTERIOR: central bay to west has an early C19 helical sandstone ashlar staircase with open risers and curved oak handrail of composite beaded sections and hollow chamfered cast-iron balusters. Moulded cornice, architraves, skirtings and plain 6-panelled doors throughout ground-floor front. Rear rooms have deeply chamfered bridging beams.

Listing NGR: SO5561085555