Goldrings and attached buildings to rear

Goldrings and Attached Buildings to Rear

Goldrings is a Grade II listed building comprising a main house range with two storeys and attics, arranged in five symmetrical bays, together with attached rear buildings including a kitchen wing, stair bay, and stable block with tack room.

The main range is built of limestone rubble with red brick dressings, though the front elevation has been re-fronted or rebuilt in grey brick with red brick dressings and a painted ground floor. The lower rear wall is enriched with galletting. The eastern gable wall has been cement rendered and lined as ashlar, as has the western elevation of the kitchen wing. The roof is tiled, with tile-hung dormer windows.

The exterior displays a cohesive 18th-century design. The ground floor right-hand and first floor windows are rectangular two-light timber casements with slightly pointed arched heads, set in 18th-century openings with finely-jointed red brick arches and pronounced keystones. The upper floor windows are set back between deep red brick panels. The shop front comprises four-over-four pane fixed lights in a moulded architrave. Stone flag steps rise to a central entrance beneath a shallow canopy with a simple moulded architrave. The doorcase has panelled linings and a 6-panel door with a central moulded muntin. Three full dormers feature tile-hung cheeks and gables with plain bargeboards, containing three, two and three-light timber casements respectively. The dormer roofs have crested ridges and tall terracotta finials. The main roof has a similar crested ridge between internal gable-end stacks of grey and red brick.

A stair bay is attached to the rear of the main range, built of limestone rubble with galletting in the lower courses and flush red brick quoins and window and door surrounds. The stair bay has a tiled gabled roof, a tile-hung rear wall, and an inserted or enlarged later 19th-century casement to the eastern face. The wide rear door of the main range is of two leaves beneath an overlight. Rear windows are timber casements, one with a slightly pointed arched head matching the front elevation; some are later replacements.

The two-storey kitchen range adjoins the stair bay. Its eastern elevation is built of limestone rubble with a limestone rubble plinth and irregularly placed two-light casements, one with rectangular leaded panes, in simple flush red brick surrounds. A blocked first floor opening marks the junction with the stair bay. The western elevation has a four-panel door beneath a deep canopy and replaced casement windows.

The attached stable block is also of limestone rubble with red brick quoins beneath a hipped tile roof. It features a tall stable door beneath an overlight. The adjacent tack room is lit by a casement window in its east elevation, with a tile-hung dormer entrance to the hay loft above.

The interior retains 18th-century features. The house has a wide central through passage with stone flag floors and symmetrically arranged doors. The ground floor to the right retains a chimneypiece, possibly of later 19th-century date, said to survive behind shop shelves. To the rear, the 18th-century plan and fittings are evident in the corner stack with a moulded timber surround, sections of panelled dado, and a door frame with a two-moulded-panel door with HL hinges and stone flag floors. The front left-hand room retains a remnant of 18th-century cyma moulded cornice.

The stair bay contains a closed string dog-leg stair with square newels, turned balusters and a moulded rail, rising to the first floor. The stair bay has panelled dado with a blocked doorway in a 18th-century position at the stair head. Dado panelling survives on the inner landing where one doorcase has a simple 18th-century architrave and a door of two fielded panels facing the stair with plain panels to the rear and HL hinges. The remainder of the main building was not fully accessible, but some rooms are thought to retain their fireplaces.

The kitchen wing contains a stone-flagged passage leading to an internal six-panel door. The kitchen features a boxed tie beam supported on a chamfered post, a wide arched opening to the hearth with a moulded architrave (now altered), moulded panelled wainscotting, and shutters and cupboards with HL and butterfly hinges.

The stable has brick, stone flag and tile flooring, with a timber hay rack and feeding trough. It leads to a rear tack room with limewashed walls and ceiling, and a hayloft above.