Cascade House

Cascade House is a substantial residence, originally a farmhouse, enlarged and upgraded for an industrialist. It dates to the 18th century with later additions. The building consists of a central farmhouse section and two later gabled cross wings at each end, with a further wing extending at the left end. It has two storeys and a cellar. The exterior is primarily of stone, mostly stucco-rendered and painted white, with the rear of the central wing unrendered. The roof is covered with Welsh slate, featuring overhanging boarded eaves and painted rendered stacks – a ridge stack to the central unit, and narrower rear and end stacks to the later wings. The central farmhouse section has a four-window front with small four-pane sash windows and sills. A similar window now occupies the space where a central doorway once stood, the blocked arch and roofline of the former porch remaining visible. The cross wings feature larger windows with six-pane sashes, with the side panes narrower. A French window with steps leading to the garden occupies the ground floor right, while the end-left wing has smaller panes in its tripartite windows. A corniced, flat-roofed porch is located in the angle between the left end wing and the cross wings, featuring a round-arched entrance and a deep side window. Further twelve-pane sashes, with narrow glazing bars and without horns, are found to the side and rear. A second porch with a basket-arched doorway is on the side right, alongside a blocked doorway. The rear side windows have cambered heads, and the rear farmhouse section has a central doorway flanked by side windows, one corner curved.

The porch has a large round-arched multipane side window. Inside, a hallway leads from the porch to a staircase with a wreathed ramped handrail and slender turned balusters (replacing earlier stick balusters). Doors are four-panelled with panelled reveals and moulded surrounds; similarly, the windows have moulded surrounds. The central farmhouse section, which has a substantially lower ceiling, is now a single room connected to the outer wings by lobbies. A large fireplace on the end-right wall contains a fireback from 1762 with a fleur-de-lys motif, likely referencing a nearby foundry, and the initials ‘WM’, believed to refer to William Morgan. Removal of plaster has revealed masonry laid in narrow courses. The end-right wing, previously a barn range and now a self-contained unit, retains a lower ceiling.