Outbuilding, Frogden

Frogden is an earlier 19th-century house with later additions and alterations, originally a 3-bay plain classical house. It has a basement and two storeys, with a T-plan arising from a wing centred behind the main facade. A single-storey range extends to the rear, incorporating outbuildings, including an implement shed. The main house is constructed of whitewashed harl with droved cream sandstone dressings, sandstone margins, and projecting cills. The outbuildings are of harl-pointed whinstone rubble with tooled cream sandstone dressings. A decorative timber summerhouse sits to the east, and a sandstone sundial is located to the southeast.

The south elevation, which serves as the entrance front, features a corniced porch with a single window centred at ground level. Steps lead to a timber panelled door on the left return, with a single window above. Single windows are positioned at both floors in the outer left and right bays. The outbuilding on the right has boarded timber garage doors, with a blind window to the left.

The west side elevation showcases a single ground-floor window in the outer right bay, and a first-floor window in the outer left bay. A recessed later wing sits to the left with single windows at both floors in each of the two bays, adjoined by a single-storey outbuilding.

The east side elevation displays a small basement window offset to the left of centre on the original house, and single windows at ground level in the outer left and right bays, with another single window at first floor in the outer right bay. The recessed later wing presents a boarded timber door at ground level in the left bay, featuring a three-pane fanlight, a first-floor window aligned above, and single windows at both floors in the right bay. A single-storey wing extends to the outer right with two single windows.

The north rear elevation has a single-storey wing with a boarded timber door in the outer left bay, with a plate glass fanlight, and two single windows to the right. An adjoining outbuilding – again, including an implement shed – is to the right, with two-leaf boarded timber doors in the penultimate bay, flanked by single windows. A large boarded timber door is at the centre, with a five-bay implement shed featuring cast-iron columns dividing the bays in the remaining spaces.

Most windows are timber sash and case with 12 panes, though some modern glazing is present at the rear, along with various skylights. The roofs are grey slate with cast-iron rainwater goods. Sandstone coping sits atop the whitewashed harl wallhead stacks, with circular cans.

The interior of the main house was not inspected in 1997.

The summerhouse, probably dating to the early 20th century, is a polygonal-plan rustic outbuilding with decorative timber panelling of varying textures and decorative stained glass windows. It has a grey slate roof with terracotta ridging, and the interior was not inspected in 1997.

The sundial has a balustered base supporting a square-plan table, with a broken metal plate inscribed “An.. Young....1864..”, and a metal gnomon in place.

Rubble-coped rubble walls partially enclose the site. Square-plan rubble piers flank both the side entrance, with timber gates, and the main entrance, which has pyramidal caps and missing gates.