The Cushats

Circa 1880, possibly incorporating earlier fabric. Single storey and attic, roughly 5-bay, irregular-plan cottage orné enlarged into a modest country house, with deep, bracketed, decoratively bargeboarded, T-braced eaves, finialled gables and steep-pitched multi-gabled roof. Rendered masonry with polished ashlar dressings and raised quoin strips. Base course to principal (SE) elevation and front sections of side elevations. Predominantly bipartite and tripartite stone-mullioned windows in chamfered margins, with hoodmoulds to ground-floor openings.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: entrance bay with timber-boarded front door and dormer above; 3 bays advanced to left with 2 large dormers to attic; 1-bay section recessed to right with 2 dormers to attic. Advanced central wing to rear with tripartite mullioned window to ground and 4-light mullioned window to 1st floor; advanced bay to right with stair tower in re-entrant angle and French doors in canted window to side (SW) elevation; lean-to to left with former rear doorway (now blocked) with rectangular fanlight.

Predominantly plate glass in timber casement windows to ground floor; plate glass in timber sash and case windows to dormers. Purple slate roof; fish-scale slate tiles to rear lean-to. Rendered coped stone stacks with black clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods supported by decorative brackets.

INTERIOR: fine 1930s interior with Tudor-style dark wood panelling with linenfold sections and stone fireplaces to principal ground-floor rooms.

COACH HOUSE AND STABLE BLOCK: early 20th century. Single storey and attic, rectangular-plan block with flat-roofed, bowed projecting entrance bay, external stair and M-gable to front, plain bargeboarded eaves, mock timber framing in gables, and entrances to coach house and stable to rear. Timber-boarded doors with 8-pane glazing in rectangular fanlights. Irregular fenestration. Timber-boarded partitions and brick floor to stable. Purple slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

GARAGE: probably 1950s. 4 bays with deep, bracketed, decoratively bargeboarded, T-braced eaves and finialled gables to match the style of the house.