Bankend Cottage, Bankend House

Dated 1845 with later additions and alterations. Classically-detailed 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan house with single storey, lean-to addition to outer left; 2-storey addition at rear forming L-plan; single storey with attic addition beyond converted to separate cottage with garage. Harl-pointed whinstone rubble; cream sandstone dressings; coursed render in part to rear cottage; red brick in part to lean-to addition. Raised base course; droved sandstone quoins; droved long and short surrounds to openings. Lightly droved margins; sandstone mullions to Venetian windows; projecting cills. Single storey, irregular-plan outbuilding to SW.

SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: timber panelled door centred at ground; 2-pane fanlight; stylised brackets beneath mutuled cornice above; single window aligned at 1st floor. Venetian windows at ground in bays to outer left and right (keystoned, round-arched pediments dated ?18? to left, ?45? to right); single windows aligned above. Stylised Venetian-shaped opening centred in lean-to addition to outer left.

BANKEND, SW (SIDE) ELEVATION: modern openings in projecting lean-to addition at ground adjoining original house; single windows in both bays at 1st floor. Single storey porch addition in bay recessed to left; single window at 1st floor; single window at ground in bay to outer left. BANKEND COTTAGE, SW (SIDE) ELEVATION: 5-bay. Replacement door in penultimate bay to outer right; single window in bay to outer right; gabled dormer above. Tripartite opening in bay to left of entrance; gabled dormer above. Single windows in 2 remaining bays to left. 2-leaf boarded timber doors to garage in bay to outer left.

Plate glass, 4- and 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows; modern windows to lean-to addition; various skylights. Grey slate roof; raised stone skews; moulded skewputts. Some cast-iron rainwater goods. Corniced apex stacks to original block; various circular cans; remaining stacks rebuilt in brick; some circular cans.

OUTBUILDING: harl-pointed rubble; red brick dressings. N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: boarded timber door off-set to left of centre. Grey slate and pantile roof; terracotta ridge tiling.

GARDEN WALLS: dry rubble walls enclosing site to front.