Manse, Whitsome

Earlier 19th century almost certainly incorporating earlier fabric and with later additions and alterations. Classically detailed 2-storey, 3-bay former manse with single and 2-storey additions at rear. Harl-pointed tooled cream rubble sandstone; droved and polished sandstone dressings. Raised base course; narrow strip quoins. Droved long and short surrounds to openings; droved margins; projecting cills; pilastered doorpiece. Outbuildings to NW.

SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: timber panelled door centred at ground; decorative fanlight; pilastered and corniced doorpiece with blocking course; single window aligned at 1st floor. 3-light corniced, canted window at ground in bay to outer right; single window above. Single windows at both floors in bay to outer left.

SW (SIDE) ELEVATION: single windows at both floors off-set to left of centre in bay advanced to outer right; single windows at both floors in bay recessed to left. Single storey, 4-bay addition recessed to outer left with projecting porch in penultimate bay to outer left; single windows in remaining bays to left and right.

NE (SIDE) ELEVATION: irregular fenestration to original block; single storey wing to right with single window in bay to left; large single window in bay to right. Gabled rubble wing projecting to outer right.

2-, 4-, 12- and 16-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows; some uPVC glazing to side (NE). Graded grey slate piended roof; some cast-iron rainwater goods. Tall, coursed sandstone corniced wallhead stacks to main block; octagonal and circular cans; squat stack at rear.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

OUTBUILDINGS: rectangular-plan whinstone rubble outbuildings forming L-plan to NW of house (N block heightened with rubble sandstone forming 2nd storey); rubble sandstone dressings throughout. E ELEVATION, W BLOCK: large square-headed opening off-set to left of centre; single door in bay to outer right; lean-to projection in bay to outer left. W (REAR) ELEVATION: predominantly blocked openings. S ELEVATION, N BLOCK: boarded timber door centred at ground; boarded opening above; small single window at ground in bay to outer left; lean-to greenhouse addition in bay to outer right. Grey slate roofs; raised stone skews; small skylights. INTERIORS: predominantly whinstone rubble walls (whitewashed in part); stabling with boarded timber stalls; timber ceilings; cobbled floors; timber hay racks.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: rubble-coped, harl-pointed rubble sandstone walls enclosing site. Squared coping to splayed, tooled rubble sandstone walls flanking entrance. Square-plan coursed sandstone gatepiers; pyramidal caps; gates missing.