Home Farmhouse And Attached Farm Buildings

SK 12 SE 5/27

DUNSTALL C.P. DUNSTALL Home Farmhouse and attached farm buildings

GV II

Farmhouse and attached farm buildings. Dated 1858. Red brick and stone quoins and dressings; tiled roof; stone verge copings. Large U-shaped plan with additions. Road front: gabled 2-storey carriage arch to right of centre divides house from outbuildings; buttressed, pointed arch with 4-light chamfer mullioned attic window over and plaque inscribed "JH/ (JOHN HARDY) 18/52". House to right with end stack and lower pitched roof of 2-storey, 3-window front; 2-light mullioned small-pane casement windows; central entrance of boarded door and overlight. 2-storey frontage to left has slight break to gable at end with 2-light trefoil-headed opening in deep moulded reveal at attic level; range of four 2-light chamfer mullioned openings at right, set at eaves level and over 4 quatrefoil vents set at top of ground floor. Lean-to set back beyond left end with Caernarvon arch entrance and built against a pair of domestic-looking gabled wings facing south-west, each with a 2-light mullioned window to the apex. The inner side of the courtyard is plainer with stable and cow house openings. John Hardy was the Patron of Dunstall Church (q.v.) and built much of Dunstall Hall (q.v.). The complex may be part of Henry Clutton's commission.

Listing NGR: SK1893220450