Description

RABY WITH KEVERSTONE RABY PARK
NZ 1222
15/84 Raby Hill
Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. Mid C18 by J. Paine, probably from design by D. Garrett. Limewashed
rubble with plinth and ashlar dressings; roofs of Welsh slate, with rear of
left wing stone-flagged, right wing roofed in corrugated asbestos and rear
left wing pantiled with stone eaves; brick chimneys. Gothic style. Symmetrical
2 storeys, 3 bays and one-storey, one-bay wings. Central boarded door and
patterned fanlight in hollow-chamfered centred-arched surround under dripmould.
Windows in similar style, that above door with label mould, have paired stone-
mullioned lights of similar shape under top lozenge-shaped light. Stone-
mullioned quatrefoil in wide gable peak with moulded coping and top chimney.
Flanking outbuildings each have one opening with shaped stone surround.
Formerly battlemented.

Source: A. Rowan, 'Gothick restoration at Raby Castle' in Architectural
History, 15, 1972, p.40 and figs 10a and 10c.

Listing NGR: NZ1202722601

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26414925

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