Lyndale House, coach house and pigsty

Lyndale House, Coach House and Pigsty

Lyndale House is a two-storey building of late 18th or early 19th-century origin, formerly a public house, with 19th-century and late 20th-century additions and alterations. It is constructed principally of random rubble gritstone, though the symmetrical principal west elevation features squared and coursed rubble. The roof is partly covered with stone slabs but is predominantly slate-tiled. Windows are timber throughout, with some later replacement units.

The building's core is roughly square on plan, with later extensions to the north, north-east, and east creating an inverse U-shaped footprint. A curved linking section to the north-west connects the main house to an adjacent cottage, now integrated with the building but originally a separate dwelling.

The main entrance is positioned centrally on the west elevation within a traditional classical door case featuring pilasters and a double bracketed, moulded hood. The south gable is blind and rendered with a gable stack at its apex. The east elevation is partly obscured by a two-storey extension and an outhouse. It displays two large multi-pane sash windows on the right, and on the left a single-leaf panelled door with a replacement window alongside, topped by a further multi-pane window with a side casement opening. The later extension contains two low-level cellar windows, one adapted for barrel access. The north elevation is curved where the link to the cottage has been constructed; a large blocked-up window remains in the return to the eastern extension.

The annex to the north, formed by the curved linking section between main house and cottage, features a double-leaf timber boarded garage door with a small window above on its right side. To the left is a first-floor door with flanking sash windows, accessed by a gritstone fore-stair with timber bannister. This stair is supported by a later rendered-brick porch providing ground-floor access. A further ground-floor door is positioned to the left. The south elevation displays the gable of the former cottage to the left and a broad pitch to the right. The west elevation fronting the roadway has a later single square opening at ground level.

Internally, the plan has been incrementally modified as extensions were added. Ground-floor access from the front door leads via corridor to the stairs, with a left-hand arm extending further back. Two parlours occupy either side of this corridor, both retaining their exposed spine beams, though the right-hand beam is boxed in. The larger parlour has a replacement masonry fireplace and its rear wall thickness indicates this was the original external wall of the cottage. The kitchen to the rear retains timber cupboards and a large range, with an exposed spine beam. A perpendicular corridor extends to a pantry and cellar, likely created during expansion to accommodate public house use. This corridor terminates in a further parlour featuring a historic six-panelled timber door with glazed upper panels. The moulded side of the door is positioned on the room side, suggesting it has been reused from another building.

The first floor is accessed by a replacement stair with a balustrade either replaced or boxed-in during the 1970s. A door from the half-landing leads to a parlour above the cellars. A corridor mirroring the ground-floor layout provides access to further rooms, part of which was created by inserting a partition into a bedroom with high-level glazing to admit light. The bedrooms feature coved ceilings following the roof slope above.

Original features surviving throughout include timber boarding in the ground-floor hall, several multi-pane windows, and timber boarded doors. The room within the northern extension contains an art-deco style tiled fireplace. The annex interior has been stripped out during conversion works; masonry walls are mainly exposed, though some late 20th-century finishes from its use as a café remain. A first-floor fireplace appears to be a 19th-century insertion.

Located in the garden to the east of the house are a former coach house and pigsty, both constructed of random gritstone rubble and in very poor condition as of 2018. The coach house has a single opening on its west elevation and a large flat-topped opening on the south elevation providing access to a hay loft above. The pigsty retains its original feeding trough.