Alcorn House

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

An unusual square plan double piled house with projecting porch. Front elevation faces east onto a farmyard. Three nine pane sash windows at first floor with segmental heads two twelve pane sash windows on ground floor, one flanking each side of porch. Pitched roof on porch with glazed walls and low cill. Valley of double pile hipped roof centred on facade. Brick chimney to north side of valley on line of front wall.

To north elevation, similar distribution of windows. Three segmental nine pane sashes at first floor, three windows aligning at ground floor. Two twelve pane sashes, central window much smaller six pane sash.

To rear west elevation, windows are irregularly distributed. Two twelve pane sashes at first floor, a door at ground level. A brick chimney aligns with the exterior wall at the centre of the northern pile.

The south elevation also has a chimney aligning with the external wall. A centrally placed segmental nine pane sash lights first floor. A casement window aligns below with a smaller casement positioned immediately west.

Walls are white washed sand cement render. Natural slates on roof.

Historical information

Building first shown on the 1909 map. Has been derelict since mid 1970s. Formerly the home of the Alcorn family. Likely that entrance was originally on north facade giving a more usual layout of reception rooms on either side of an entrance hall with kitchens to the rear.

References:
0SS: 1909
Mr Douglas Conn -neighbour.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Initially, an interesting well proportioned housed with a double pile suggestive of relatively early construction date. However, even if entrance was on north facade interior spaces are still cramped and mean and give no impression of classical proportion. At present, the house is in a poor state of repair and is not worthy of listing.