Waterloo House and Barn

Waterloo House and Barn

This is a Grade II listed building comprising a house of early 19th-century date and a mid-19th-century barn, set within a courtyard arrangement.

The house is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with a concrete-tiled roof and chimneystacks of stone and brick. It stands set back from the roadside, oriented roughly north-south, and is rectangular on plan with a small outshut on the north-west corner.

The principal façade faces south and is symmetrical, comprising three bays over two storeys beneath a pitched roof. The central entrance features a six-panel front door beneath a later pitched timber porch. Windows throughout have timber frames and pairs of six-light iron-framed casements with four-light tilting casements above, all openings having flat stone arches. The rear elevation has a central doorway with ledge and plank door beneath a pitched porch, flanked by windows with pairs of two-light casements in segmental-arched openings; the first-floor windows above have flat heads. Chimneystacks project slightly from both gable ends; their tops have been rebuilt in brick and are partially rendered. Small windows light the attic on each gable.

The barn stands to the west, parallel with the house and separated by a courtyard. It is rectangular on plan, constructed primarily from stone with weatherboarding to the first floor of the east elevation. The barn has stone outshuts on the west and south elevations, and later timber outshuts on the east and west. A garage outshut (excluded from listing) partially obscures the east elevation. The north gable end contains a doorway to a stable or cow house, and a small square taking-in door pierces the first floor. The west elevation contains a small stone and timber outshut storeroom and a larger corrugated-iron shed (excluded from listing). The south gable is blind and has an internal chimneystack rising from the apex, with a small outshut storeroom.

The house interior retains a largely complete collection of original 19th-century joinery. The ground floor is arranged as a four-room plan with central hallway, stair and through-passage. The sitting room features a cast-iron fireplace with tiled slips and an extensive timber surround with cupboards built into the recesses either side, a deep chamfered spine beam with run-out stops, and exposed floor joists above. The dining room contains a similar fireplace with a moulded timber chimneypiece. The pantry has a slate-topped bench. Throughout the ground floor are six-panel doors, panelled window seats, architraves, skirtings and picture rails. The stair has a simple moulded newel and handrail with stick balusters and mouldings to the open string.

The first floor follows a similar configuration with four-panelled doors and retains most architraves and wide timber floorboards. Simple fitted cupboards occupy the master bedroom. Original 19th-century ironmongery is retained throughout. The attic contains two rooms accessed by a central stair, with a central hallway featuring a simple stick balustrade above the stair void. A principal truss has been cut through to create an entrance into the northern room with lath and plaster infill. The roof has been replaced, though earlier pegged coupled rafters remain in situ.

The barn's main range contains two rooms without internal communication. The southern room has a wide fireplace and large bread oven, added later, with a winding stair in a crudely-panelled compartment leading to the first floor. This is a single space divided by a lightweight partition beneath the southernmost truss. The two trusses feature kingposts with curved struts rising from the tie beam, single deep purlins on either side, and a neat arrangement of rafters and batons.

The northern room functions as a stable or cow house with crude stall partitions, mangers and hayracks. Alterations to the structural joinery accommodate these features, notably the deep axial beam has been cut short and is supported on an inserted upright post. The barn has a slate roof and a stone stack.

Timber-framed outshuts adjoining the barn are excluded from the listing as they are not of special architectural or historic interest.