Turnpool House

Turnpool House is a house dating to 1782, with extensions added in 1925 and 1974. It was built for Emmanuel and Betty Strickland. The house is constructed of dressed sandstone, rendered to the rear, with herringbone-tooled quoins and a pantile roof. It has a central-staircase plan, originally one room deep, later extended to the left and to the rear. The front façade is two storeys and three windows wide, with a two-storey extension to the left. The front door is a C20 board door reusing original hinges, with a fixed eight-pane window above. The remaining windows are three-light, small-pane, horizontal-sliding sashes. Stone sills are present to all windows and roughly tooled lintels to all openings. A datestone inscribed "S (reversed) E B 1782" is incorporated into the door lintel. The house has coped gables, shaped kneelers, and end stacks to the original, steeply-pitched roof. A blocked window opening with a tooled lintel, and quoined gable end, are visible at the right-hand gable. Inside, a massive spine beam, roughly chamfered with run-out stops, is present in the ground-floor room to the left. Original stone fireplace surrounds with coved cornice mantel shelves remain in all rooms except the one on the ground floor to the left. Several first-floor plank and batten doors with original door furniture of local design have been kept.