Gardens House, Arniston House

Circa 1764. 2 storey, 3 bay, rectangular plan traditional house. Tooled rubble with broached dressings. Long and short quoins; splayed reveals to 1st floor of S elevation.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: near symmetrical; chamfered doorway to centre of ground floor; timber door with 5 pane fanlight; 19th century bipartite windows to flanking bays. Regular fenestration to 1st floor. Single storey, droved, coursed sandstone screen wall to right; chamfered doorway to centre; boarded timber door; polished strip quoins; flat coping, swept down to right angle. Mono pitch garage with 2 leaf boarded timber doors to outer right.

E ELEVATION: symmetrical; single bay. Large, blind pointed arched opening to centre of 1st floor; raised margins and impost detail; rendered brick infill; skew blocks

N ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 3 bay; small single pane window to centre of ground floor; window to flanking bay to left; stair window to centre between ground and 1st floors; regular fenestration to left and right bays of 1st floor. Single storey, late 19th century extension advanced to outer left with corrugated iron roof; N and E elevations obscured by potting sheds of walled garden (see separate listing); glazed boarded timber door to left of right return flanked by window.

W ELEVATION: asymmetrical; window off centre to left of ground; small single pane window set in centre of gablehead.

Predominantly 12 pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof with lead ridge; ashlar skews. Harled, coped gablehead stacks with circular cans. Cast iron rainwater goods.

GATEPIERS: square plan droved, coursed, coped sandstone gatepiers with tall pyramidal caps and iron framed arch to SE of house.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.