Melbourne House

Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1870, having split-level two-storey return to rear (south), and with five-bay single-storey glazed conservatory to the east. Shallow hipped natural slate roof with overhanging eaves, projecting eaves course, a central pair of smooth rendered chimneystacks with polygonal clay ware pots over, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Squared and coursed rubble walls over smooth rendered plinth course, and with roughly dressed and squared flush rubble stone quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with patent rendered surrounds, flush red brick block-and-start dressings surrounds and voussoirs, stone sills, and with two-over-two pane horizontally emphasised timber sliding sash windows. Central shallow segmental-headed door opening to the front elevation (north) having smooth rendered reveal, red brick block-and-start surround, timber panelled door with bolection mouldings, sidelights over timber panelled stallrisers with bolection mouldings, lintel console brackets supporting moulded timber lintel, and with overlight with cast-iron glazing bars. Attached five-bay single-storey conservatory to the east elevation having central gable-fronted doorway with decorative timber bargeboards, mono-pitched glass-paned roof with cast-iron ridge-cresting and finial over doorway, smooth rendered walls surmounted by paired square-headed fixed-pane windows incorporating leaded coloured glass panels over at eaves level with central floral motifs, square-headed doorway with double-leafed half-glazed timber panelled doors having leaded coloured glass panels with central floral motifs, and with triangular overlight. Set back from road in extensive mature landscaped grounds in the rural countryside to the east of the centre of Ramelton. Gravel forecourt to the north, and to the east. Gravel driveway from the north-east of site. Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings to the rear (south). Main multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to the south having hipped replacement artificial slate roof, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds with battened timber doors and timber windows. Altered single-storey outbuilding to the south-east of house, now in use as a garage, having hipped artificial slate roof, rubble stone walls, and with square-headed carriage-arch to the front (north) incorporating squared rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan); gate way attached to the north-west of outbuilding, giving access to yard to the rear of house, comprising a pair of tall squared rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having cut stone coping, and with a pair of corrugated-metal gates. Single-storey outbuilding to the south of site having pitched natural slate roof, roughcast rendered rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings. Rubble stone boundary walls to the road-frontage to the north having rubble stone soldier coursing over. Additional rubble stone walls to site. Pedestrian gateway to the north-west of site comprising a smooth rendered ruled-and-line gate piers (on square-plan) having pyramidal coping over, and with hooped wrought-iron gate. Vehicular gateway to the north-east comprising a pair of cement rendered gate piers (on square-plan) with modern metal gates.