Darkes House

CONDERTON CP - SO 9637 - 9737 10/62 Darkes House - II

House. Circa 1908, by Ernest Newton for Richard Biddulph Martin. Coursed dressed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. Stone tiled roof laid in diminishing courses, half-hipped at east end with overhanging eaves; and large ashlar ridge stack with moulded capping and also large stack at east end with three connected square shafts. L-plan. Single storey and attic with half-dormers. Windows are all leaded casements. North front elevation: ground floor has two 3-light windows with flat arches and large keyblocks and also a narrow single-light window. To right of centre there is a gabled half-dormer with moulded bargeboards, decorative applied timber in gable with roughcast infill panels and a 2-light window. Beneath the eaves to the left of the dormer is a circular stair window. The main entrance beneath the half- dormer has a cambered moulded canopy on shaped brackets and a partly glazed door. The date "AD 1908" is inscribed on the upper right corner of the front elevation. A hipped-roofed single-storey wash-house adjoins the east end which has a single-light window in its north front elevation. To the rear of the eastern bay of the main part is a substantial wing. (Newton, W G: The Life and Works of Ernest Newton, London, 1925).

Listing NGR: SO9642637082