Blackwood House

Built 1830/40. 2-storey small-scale country house with Tudor

details, parallel low ranges to W from service court. Stugged

red ashlar coursers with polished dressings and hood-moulds.

N (entrance) and S elevations both with advanced wide gabled

bay nearest E, 3 remaining bays to N with central doorway

with moulded head (panelled door with fanlight), 1st floor

windows break through eaves and have steep gabled

dormer-heads. Sash windows to elevations, lying-panes at

ground, 12-pane glazing pattern at 1st floor. E elevation has

projecting ground floor windows and central wallhead gable

with corbelled stack and individual flues; otherwise corniced

end and axial stacks to house. Shaped skews and skewputts;

finialed gables. Courtyard ranges linked at W by screen wall,

single diamond flue over each W gable. Slate roofs. L-plan

low stables/coachhouse court to W of house similarly

detailed, N range a 3-bay stable, W range a 2-bay coach

house. Gatepiers to N of house, square outer piers linked by

short quadrants to taller, thinner inner piers. All painted

ashlar with pointed caps. Piers at E drive also painted

ashlar.