Rumford House Including Front Garden Area Wall And Gate Piers

Rumford House is a house dating from circa 1830-40, with extensions added in the late 19th century and the mid to late 20th century. It is constructed of dressed slate rubble, with a bitumenised scantle slate roof and gable ends. The later 19th-century extension on the left has a rag slate roof with gabled ends. Red brick stacks are present at the gable ends; the axial stack to the left of the centre was originally a gable end stack for the original house. The original plan is a double-depth layout, with two principal front rooms and a central entrance hall, potentially containing the staircase at the rear. Smaller service rooms are likely at the back. A one-room wide, double-depth extension was added in the late 19th century to the left, and a two-storey extension was built on the rear in the mid to late 20th century. The front facade has a symmetrical 1:3 window arrangement on the right side. The original house portion’s windows feature flat red brick arches with granite keystones, slate sills, and later 19th-century four-pane sashes. The central doorway has a flat red brick arch with a granite keystone, leading to a late 19th-century panelled and glazed door with a rectangular overlight. The two-storey, one-window late 19th-century addition to the left has an original sixteen-pane sash on the ground floor and a 19th-century two-light, twelve-pane casement on the first floor, both with segmental brick arches and slate sills. The right-hand side is blank, and the left-hand side features various 19th-century sashes and a plank door. A two-storey, 20th-century rendered, flat-roofed extension is at the rear. The interior was not inspected but may retain 19th-century joinery, such as doors, chimney-pieces, and the original staircase. The property includes late 19th-century front garden area walls with rounded corners, a rustic quartz capping, and a central gateway also with rustic quartz capping. A late 19th or early 20th-century wooden gate is present, featuring curved bracing above the mid rail.