History

Earlier C19 gentry house, said to have been used as vicarage in C19. House is marked on 1842 tithe map, without outbuildings, as owned and occupied by the Rev. John Hughes. Previous farm was on drive below and is identified as main house on 1838 schedule to Tithe Map, suggesting that new house may have been built between 1838 and 1842, though it looks more of the 1820s.

Exterior

Roughcast, whitewashed with some ochre colouring, slate hipped roofs with deep paired-bracket eaves and three stacks, one roughcast off-centre on front ridge, large stone N side-wall stack and roughcast stack in rear valley. Basement and two storeys, near square plan, indented on rear W wall. Three-window E front with hornless 12-pane sashes, centre door up six cemented steps. Flush-panelled 6-panel door with radiating-bar fanlight, set in whitewashed porch with metal tent-roof, paired panelled doors and two narrow side lights. Basement window to right. Three-window S side with similar sashes, blank windows first floor left and right and arched blank window ground floor centre. Basement window with small-paned sliding casements to right. Rear W wall has one window range of similar sashes to right over two basement windows, and projecting two-window section to left, similar sashes each floor to left and single arched stair-light with radiating-bar head to right. Two basement windows. Roof has two hips. N side is partly whitewashed rubble stone with put-log holes. Slate paved area with shallow basin for spring. Eleven slate steps up to front courtyard. Basement ledged door and triple sliding casement to left.

Interior

Panelled shutters, six-panel doors, stick baluster dogleg stair with ramped rail. Moulded cornices.

Reasons for Listing

An exceptionally little altered small gentry house still with original roughcast and whitewash finish, prominently set on well-wooded hillside above Hoffnant valley.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29493787

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)