The Poplars With Front Gates And Railings

The Poplars is a detached house dating from the early 19th century, with alterations made in the late 19th century. The house is rendered with chamfered quoins, and has a hipped Welsh slate roof with gable end brick stacks. It is two storeys high and has three windows on the front elevation. A central Doric portico features an inserted glazing and an inner six-panelled door with a fanlight; flanked by four-pane sash windows with scrolled consoles to the cornices. A late 19th-century central bay on the first floor sits atop the porch, featuring a four-pane sash window within a moulded architrave, alongside flanking four-pane sash windows. A 12-pane sash conservatory was added to the left return in the 20th century. A single-storey ashlar extension, dating from the late 19th century, is attached to the right return, with chamfered rustication, a central blocked segmental-headed archway, a segmental-headed tripartite sash window to the left, and a 20th-century door to the right archway. The interior and rear of the property were inaccessible during a survey in March 1987. Attached to the front of the house are well-preserved cast-iron spearhead railings with dogbars, set on brick dwarf walls with pitched coping, and matching double gates. The house was used as the doctor’s residence during the first half of the 20th century, and the late 19th-century addition may have served as a surgery.