New House

New House

This house is built of local rubblestone rendered and whitewashed, with Welsh slate roofs featuring ridge tiles and red brick chimney stacks. It is a symmetrical two-and-a-half storey structure with five windows across the front, a central entrance, and an eaves gable. Large and small rear wings extend from the main body, one of which retains partly original fabric, and a single storey addition projects from the left hand gable.

The front elevation presents a central 8-panel door with four large and four small fielded panels, though the top two small panels have been replaced with glass. The door is set within a later trellis porch. All windows are original casements with oak lintels, cross-framed with 3 small panes above 5 or 6 wide panes, retaining considerable original glass. The gable contains another full-size window, and two gabled dormers with small-paned casements are also apparently original. The steeply pitched roof has end stacks. A left-hand wing with a steeply gabled roof contains one small window.

The rear elevation includes a projecting wing to the left; the rest of the rear wall is largely covered by a later lean-to with modern windows. A stair turret rises above this at roof centre. The original kitchen wing, now enlarged, has one-and-a-half storeys with a 3-light casement to the ground floor, a small window, and a first-floor 2-light casement in the gable end of the main range. The wing has a gabled dormer containing a 2-light casement.

The plan comprises two large rooms to each floor with a central hall and stair. The front door enters a hall or cross-passage with walls and doors to either side accessing the main rooms and a rear door beneath the stair soffit. The bottom flight of stairs originally returned into the hall but was rerouted to run along the rear wall, probably during the 19th century. Both partition walls show signs of alteration. The rear door is a 2-panel type, part glazed with original hinges; the other two doors have been replaced. The rooms feature plain chamfered beams and two-panel shutters to the windows. The right-hand room (dining room) has a roughly finished fireplace with an oak lintel. The left-hand room contains a fireplace with a stone basket arch and flanking niches. The stair is entered from the right-hand room. Rear wing rooms have been altered, though the salting stone remains in the dairy. The staircase is an open well rising to the attic, with a closed string and posts and handrail that are probably original; the balustrade is a circa 1800 alteration, part turned and part stick. The first floor contains two main rooms and a small central room, with shutters, doors and beams as below and no fireplaces visible. The attic has two main rooms and a small closet in the gable. Two principal rafter trusses to each room support three tiers of purlins and a ridge piece. The roof at the south end was reconstructed around 1990 following a fire.