Stewarthall

Dated 1760. Symmetrical, 2-storey, 5-bay Palladian house grouped 2-1-2 with advanced, pedimented centre; flanking single storey, 3-bay pavilions; connecting screen walls. Painted harl; grey sandstone ashlar dressings. Raised base course; cill course at 1st floor; eaves course beneath corniced eaves. Prominent quoins; Gibbs surrounds to ground floor openings; block surrounds to 1st floor openings; architraved reveals; raised keystones; flush cills. Later 20th century conservatory adjoining left pavilion (former coach house).

SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to 2-leaf, part-glazed timber panelled doors centred at ground; decorative fanlight; pedimented, Gibbsian surround. Venetian window aligned at 1st floor comprising fluted pilaster mullions, cornice, raised keystone; single oculus centred in pediment above; surmounting urn-shaped finials. Regularly fenestrated at both floors in recessed bays flanking entrance. Round-arched opening set in screen wall to outer left; 2-leaf, part-glazed timber doors set in round-arched opening in single storey wing to outer right. Advanced pavilions comprising single windows in all bays. Glazed, round-arched corridor linking left pavilion with conservatory.

NE (REAR) ELEVATION: 5-bay. Single windows at both floors in all bays; dated cill course to outer left. Single storey wing to outer left comprising single window off-set to right of centre; 2-leaf, part-glazed timber door in bay to right. Single storey wing to outer right comprising glazed door at centre (set in tripartite bow); single windows in remaining bays to left and right.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case glazing; 6-pane glazing to pavilions; some skylights. Graded grey slate, slightly bell-cast piended roofs; lead flashings; replacement rainwater goods. Channelled, corniced ashlar ridge stacks flanking central pediment; coped apex and wallhead stacks to kitchen and drawing room wings (right).

INTERIOR: timber skirting boards; simple plaster cornices; some timber dado panelling; some original fireplaces; timber panelled shutters; shelved, pilastered recess in main bedroom (previously 1st floor drawing room). Central stair comprising decorative cast-iron balustrade, carved timber handrail.

CONSERVATORY: 10-sided, timber-framed conservatory on harled base. Round-arched and small-pane detailing; tapering finial surmounting central light.

WELL: circular well with simple wrought-iron overthrow.

BOUNDARY WALL: random rubble sandstone wall enclosing site.