Quarry House

OVER WHITACRE NUNEATON ROAD SP29SE (East side) 3/138 The Quarry House GV II House. c. 1840, extended late C19. Tudor Gothic style. Coursed and squared sandstone. Slate roof to house part and concrete tiles to service range. Parapet gable ends on kneelers to house. End stacks with entablatures. Cellar and two storeys. Symmetrical facade. Central gabled porch with parapeted gable and 4-centred outer and inner arches. 3 unglazed loop openings in the side walls. Half-glazed door. Flanking 2-storey, canted bays with hipped roofs and one hung sash to each face of the bay, each in 4-centred moulded arch. There is an extension of 1886 for Mr. Pemberton, the County coroner. The date is on the fireplace. This may also be the date of other additions to the service range on the north west. The dining-room has reset early C18 raised and fielded panelling in 2 heights. The house is associated with a sandstone quarry which is about 50 metres to the south-east.

Listing NGR: SP2544090916