Garden House, 9 The Old Orchard, Limekilns

18th century; later alterations. Rectangular-plan house; single storey with attic to W section; 2-storeys with attic to E. Harled; dressed stone surround to openings.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical 3-bay left section; central replacement plank door; slightly advanced porch; moulded stone doorway and cornice. Carved stone above porch; fluted frieze; carved centrepiece with human head, spade, sickle and rake. Flanking ground floor windows. 2 gabled dormer windows breaking eaves centred above; stugged stone surrounds and coping. Irregularly placed fenestration to right section; 2 ground and 2 1st floor windows. Modern flat-roofed dormer wholly in roof.

W ELEVATION: ground floor window to left.

N ELEVATION: central ground floor window; flanked by single small windows. Replacement 1st floor window to left; small 1st floor window to right.

E ELEVATION: Replacement door to right; attic window above.

INTERIOR: not seen, 2000.

Replacement fenestration; 4-pane timber sash and case windows with horns. Rooflight and 19th century dormer windows to front; rooflight to rear. Pitched roof; fishscale tiles; crowstepped skews to gables and between E and W section of house; moulded skewputts. Gable apex stacks and ridge stack; corniced to right gable and ridge stack; circular cans.

OUTHOUSE

Single storey outhouse situated close to W gable of house. Sandstone rubble; replacement timber double doors to E; blocked door to S; plain gable with chimney to W; window to N. Modern red tiled pitched roof; used as garage.