Site Record

When Bertholey Mansion was built (after 1830) for Colthurst Rateman, the old house (said to incorporate part of the house from which a datestone of 1616 was resited in the new mansion) became its service wing. After a fire in 1905, it was used as a farm range. The big centre ridge stack of the building suggests an early house, although its height relates to an addition or mansion to the west wing, and thw indows are also early 19th century. A reconstruction of the mansion block was begun in 1999, and the former farmhouse range will become once more the service range for the rebuilt mansion.

A two-storey house constructed of painted rubble stone with a graded slate roof and with very tall centre brick stack. The south front has a cambered arch doorway to the left, and 12-pane sashes together with an early 19th century addition with a tripartite sash window with a hipped slate roof. On the first floor are 6-pane sashes at eaves level.

The right end wall is against the rear of the ruinous mansion, while to the rear is a parallel, early 19th century, 2-storey range with a tall brick chimney at the east end. The east gable facade faces the approach from the yard, and has a blank roundel in a pedimental gable over two first floor 9-pane sashes, and two ground floor 12-pane sashes. An outshut to the right links the house to this parallel block.

Attached is a single-storey rubble stone outbuilding with a slate roof. This has a camber-headed casement-pair window with a brick head to the right. The rear of the outbuilding is painted white with various openings, including three modern gabled doormers. The east gable end, to the yard, has board doors forming a coach entrance, with a roundel in the gable.
(Source; Cadw listing database) S Fielding RCAHMW 04/10/2005