Kergord House, Weisdale

Circa 1850, with rear wing and glasshouse added circa 1910, porch heightened and W wing added in 1947. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay symmetrical L-plan house, single storey lean-to additions to E and W gables with rectangular gabled conservatory adjoining S wall of latter. Harled walls with painted droved ashlar dressings.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION; symmetrical, 2-storey flat-roofed porch advanced in centre bay with wider multi-pane window at ground and blocking course at eaves centred by decorative former chimney base, entrance door to E side and occuli at 1st floor to each side. Regularly-fenestrated principal elevation recessed to right and left with enlarged windows at ground.

W ELEVATION: ground floor of house concealed by large single storey wing with mono-pitch roof; parapetted S wall adjoining large timber glasshouse with rendered base, glazed and panelled entrance door in E side.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: gabled 2-storey wing advanced at right, single storey W wing extending to right with 3 closely spaced windows to left, and door to outer right.

E ELEVATION: single storey lean-to addition projecting from principal gable, rear wing recessed at right with single storey addition in re-entrant angle.

Some modern glazing to ground floor windows, 4-pane timber sash and case windows to 1st floor and dormers. Purple-grey slate principal roofs with cast-iron profiled gutters and piend-roofed slate-hung canted timber dormers with decorative cast-iron finials over outer bays of S pitch. Harled gablehead stacks, ridge and wallhead stacks to N wing, all with corniced stone copes and circular cans. Painted ashlar stop-chamfered skew-copes with block skewputts.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATES AND GATEPIERS: random rubble wall enclosing garden to S and W of house, W wall articulated at centre as semicircular recess with wallhead built up as stepped centrepiece. Square rubble gatepiers with pyramidal caps and folding timber gate.