Kergord House, Weisdale

Kergord House in Weisdale dates from around 1850, with a rear wing and glasshouse added around 1910. The porch was heightened and a west wing was added in 1947. This is a 2-storey and attic, 3-bay symmetrical L-plan house, featuring single storey lean-to additions on the east and west gables, along with a rectangular gabled conservatory attached to the south wall of the west gable. The exterior has harled walls with painted droved ashlar dressings.

The south elevation is symmetrical, with a flat-roofed porch that projects from the central bay. This porch has a wider multi-pane window at ground level and a blocking course at the eaves, which is centered by a decorative former chimney base. The entrance door is located on the east side, with occuli on the first floor flanking each side. The principal elevation is regularly fenestrated, with the right and left sides recessed and enlarged windows at ground level.

On the west elevation, the ground floor of the house is concealed by a large single storey wing that has a mono-pitch roof. The parapetted south wall of this wing adjoins a large timber glasshouse, which features a rendered base and a glazed and panelled entrance door on the east side.

The north elevation includes a gabled 2-storey wing that advances to the right, alongside a single storey west wing that extends to the right. This section has three closely spaced windows on the left and a door on the outer right.

The east elevation features a single storey lean-to addition that projects from the principal gable, while the rear wing is recessed on the right, accompanied by a single storey addition in the re-entrant angle.

Some modern glazing has been installed in the ground floor windows, while the first floor and dormers have 4-pane timber sash and case windows. The principal roofs are covered with purple-grey slate, featuring cast-iron profiled gutters and piend-roofed slate-hung canted timber dormers with decorative cast-iron finials over the outer bays of the south pitch. The house has harled gablehead stacks, as well as ridge and wallhead stacks on the north wing, all topped with corniced stone copes and circular cans. The skew-copes are painted ashlar with stop-chamfered edges and block skewputts.

The boundary walls, gates, and gatepiers consist of a random rubble wall that encloses the garden to the south and west of the house. The west wall features a semicircular recess at the center, with the wallhead built up as a stepped centerpiece. Square rubble gatepiers topped with pyramidal caps support a folding timber gate.