Stables And Retaining Wall, Jedwater House

Jedwater House is a two-storey, asymmetrical Baronial house, likely designed by William Burn in the mid-19th century, with later 19th-century additions and alterations. The house is constructed of sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and chamfered reveals. A corbel course encircles jettied first-floor bays to the north and west, and two ashlar-coped, gabled dormerheads project above the first-floor windows, breaking the eaves.

The east elevation features a flat-roofed stone porch with small windows set in the re-entrant angle of the main block, abutting an advanced gabled bay to the right containing a first-floor window and masking a recessed central bay which contains a stair window. A projecting gabled bay is situated to the left. A service door is located to the outer left by a southeast block, which includes a three-stage circular lower section with a conical roof and decorative weathervane. The north elevation presents a gabled bay advanced at the centre, with a stone mullioned tripartite window to the right return at ground floor, and a bay to the left. The west elevation displays a similar advanced, gabled bay at the centre, containing a tripartite window at ground level. The south elevation features a gabled bay with a wallhead stack, and various ground-floor additions in the re-entrant angle, including a lean-to greenhouse and modern, flat-roofed projections.

The windows are mostly sash and case with a 12-pane glazing pattern, while the tripartite windows have horizontal glazing. The steeply pitched roof is covered with grey slates with areas of repair, and incorporates ashlar crowstepped gables. Wallhead and ridge stacks are present, with harled repairs.

The interior features a two-leaf panelled vestibule door, a flagstoned vestibule, a decorative timber balustrade, and some classical chimneypieces.

A later 19th-century stable block is located nearby, rectangular in plan with a room and hayloft above. It’s constructed of rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings and chamfered reveals. The main elevation, facing east, has garage doors inserted to the right and two stable doors to the left. A hayloft door and window are above, both breaking the eaves within gabled dormerheads. A rear elevation faces the garden. Also on the site is a small, square-plan, single-storey outbuilding, dating to the late 19th century, with two doors to the north, two windows, a coal-shute door to the west, and a flanking window. It has a pyramidal slate roof.

A rubble retaining wall, with semicircular coping, runs along the south and east boundaries of the property.