Orchard House Targon And Garden Wall And Railings To Front

Orchard House and Targon are two attached houses with a garden wall and railings at the front, dating from around 1800 to 1820. They are constructed from rendered and painted stone rubble, with the front elevation stuccoed. The buildings feature a rag slate roof with hipped ends and diagonal brick axial chimney stacks arranged in groups of three, four, and three along the ridge.

Orchard House, located on the left, has a double depth plan with a central cross passage. It includes two reception rooms at the front and a staircase at the rear of the passage, flanked by two small service rooms: a dairy on the left and a kitchen on the right. Targon, on the right, likely has a similar layout.

The houses are two storeys high with a symmetrical four-window front. Each house has a central entrance door in a two-centered arched opening, flanked by two sashes with intersecting glazing bars and two-centred arched openings on the ground floor, with two similar sashes above. The sashes on Orchard House were replaced in the 1970s but maintain the original pattern, while Targon’s sashes were replaced with replicas in the late 19th century.

Inside Orchard House, the hall features a plaster cornice decorated with an egg and dart motif. There is an early 19th-century fluted chimneypiece in the left-hand room, made of patent stone that imitates dark grey polished slate, complete with a slate mantle shelf. The dog-leg staircase has square newels and stick balusters, and there is a segmental arch opening to the two front bedrooms. The interior of Targon has not been inspected.

The front garden area is enclosed by a low stone rubble wall, with 19th-century iron railings and four contemporary iron gates.