Jaspers Including Outbuilding Adjoining North And Front Garden Wall To South

Jaspers is a house with an adjoining outbuilding, likely dating from the 17th century or earlier, with extensions and remodelling around the late 17th or early 18th century, and again in the early 19th century. The house is constructed of local shale rubble, roughcast to the front and at the left-hand end, with an asbestos slate roof, red clay ridge tiles, and gable ends. A projecting gable end stack is located to the left, and a rear lateral stack is positioned to the right of centre, both rendered.

The interior appears to have a three-room and through-passage plan. The lower end, to the left, likely served as the kitchen and is heated by the large gable end stack. The central hall has a rear lateral stack, and the inner room on the right appears unheated. A wing with an integral lofted outbuilding was probably built in the late 17th or 18th century behind the through passage, and an outshut was added in the early 19th century in the angle behind the lower end. The front of the house was remodelled in the early 19th century, with the addition of sash windows and a classical doorcase.

The symmetrical front has a tripartite sash window to the left on the ground floor, a 20-pane sash window to the right of centre, and a late 19th-century 2-light casement window with glazing bars to the right. The first floor has four 16-pane sash windows. A projecting slate dripcourse is positioned above the right-hand window. The doorway to the left of centre is framed by an early 19th-century doorcase with panelled pilasters with fluted capitals and an entablature featuring patera on the frieze. The door itself is an early 19th-century six-panel door with glazed upper panels. The rear elevation features an outshut with a corrugated asbestos sheet roof and a 19th-century 3-light horizontally sliding sash window with glazing bars. A wing with an integral lofted outbuilding extends from the rear of the passage, featuring an elliptically arched ground floor doorway and a flight of steps leading to the loft door above.

A low shale rubble garden wall with a pitched shale copping and low gate piers runs to the south, likely dating from the 19th century and located opposite the front doorway of the house. The interior of the house was not inspected.