Stobsmill House, Gorebridge

Circa 1795. 2 storey with attic and basement; 3 bay house with later alterations and additions. Tooled coursed sandstone with droved dressings.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; base course; architraved doorway centred to ground; 2 leaf timber panelled door with 8 pane fanlight (possibly a later 19th century alteration); window in flanking bay to left; 19th century canted window in flanking bay to right extending to 1st floor with slate roof; windows to centre and outer left of 1st floor.

N ELEVATION: 2 bay; glazed timber door off centre to right at ground, window off centre to left; regular fenestration to 1st floor; single storey, 2 bay, 19th century addition to advanced to right with blocking course and piended roof; regular fenestration; timber glazed door to re entrant angle to left; single storey, single bay, flat roofed, harled 20th century addition to outer right; single window to centre, window with boarded timber door below to W elevation.

W ELEVATION: irregular fenestration to 1st floor; 2 symmetrically placed timber framed dormers; ground floor obscured by later additions (see below): central doorway in later 19th century addition with timber panelled door with ?spider web? fanlight (possibly late 18th/early 19th century originally from the E elevation); small barred window to left; harled 20th century porch in penultimate bay to left, with earlier 19th century droved sandstone lean to outbuilding with slate roof advanced in front; single window opening to W elevation; 2 doorways flanked by windows to right return; 20th century addition to outer left (see above); later 19th century addition to outer right with single central window set in gable; window to left return.

S ELEVATION: random rubble; single bay gable end, with 19th century canted window off centre to right at ground with slate roof; steps and boarded timber door to basement below to left. 3 bay 19th century addition to left with piended roof; windows to centre and outer right; 20th century lean to greenhouse addition to left.

BOUNDARY WALL: tooled snecked rubble wall with semi circular coping.

Primarily 12 pane timber sash and case windows, barred to W elevation. Grey slate roof with lead ridge; stone skews; coped gablehead stacks with circular cans; cast iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.