Shank House Walled Garden

Dated 1758 and 1880, with later additions. L-plan house comprising single storey and attic 3-bay principal block with single storey 3-bay wing projecting to rear clasping single storey lean-to in re-entrant angle. Harl-pointed rubble walls with droved sandstone ashlar dressings. Base course; chamfered reveals to window margins; relieving arches to ground floor; shouldered openings to attic floor.

SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; modern infilled former entrance door to centre of ground floor, with keystone dated 1758 centring lintel; windows to flanking bays. Framed datestone reading RD 1880 centred over doorway; gabled stone dormerheads to dormers breaking eaves to outer bays of attic floor. Rubble garden wall adjoining elevation to left.

SE ELEVATION: blank.

NE ELEVATION: single storey wing advanced to right with modern openings to left return, regular fenestration to right return; window to centre of single storey lean-to with cat-slide roof to re-entrant angle to left; modern entrance porch to re-entrant angle to outer left.

NW ELEVATION: gable of principal block to right with single window off centre to left of ground floor; rubble-infilled window to right of attic floor; irregular fenestration to rear wing extending to left.

Predominantly 4-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof with overhanging timber eaves and exposed rafter ends to principal roof and rear wings; decorative bargeboards with incised quatrefoils to principal roof and timber-finialled dormers; red clay ridge tiles to rear wing. Coped and harled gablehead stacks with octagonal cans, single-flue harled wallhead stack to lean-to wing. Cast iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

WALLED GARDEN: 3-sided, walls to NE, NW and SW of house. Random rubble, repaired in places. Infilled doorway with chamfered reveals and polished raised margins to centre of NE and NW walls; NW wall recessed to right with infilled doorway to right return. Remains of Shank House (see below) to W of SW wall.

REMAINS OF SHANK HOUSE: to W of SW wall of walled garden (see above). SE and SW walls survive of regularly fenestrated, 2 storey, 4 bay house. Pink sandstone rubble with polished dressings. Raised margins with chamfered reveals; relieving arches; long and short quoins.