Shellom House And Outbuilding, And Garden Wall Attached

Shellom House, along with its outbuilding and attached garden wall, is likely from the early 18th century and was enlarged around 1800. The front of the house is rendered, featuring an ashlar plinth and dressings, with a Welsh slate roof that has stone gable copings and brick chimneys. The returns and rear of the house are made of thinly-rendered rubble. The outbuilding is constructed of rubble with a pantiled roof, while the garden wall is also made of rubble and topped with a flat stone coping. The house has its gable end facing the street, with the wall forming an L-shape along the street front and returning along the front of the garden.

The house is two stories tall with three bays, while the outbuilding to the right is one story with three bays. The house features a near-central six-panel door, with the upper panels glazed, set under a segmental arch in an architrave that includes corner paterae. Late 19th-century sash windows are found in the outer bays and at the center of the first floor, all with projecting stone sills. The roof has end gable copings on cyma-moulded kneelers and banded brick chimneys. At the rear, there is a full-width outshut beneath a catslide roof. The outbuilding has a four-pane sash window in the first wider bay and paired nine-pane lights in the two right bays.

The garden wall, which is approximately 2 to 2.5 meters high due to the slope of the land in front of the house, features a segmental-headed stone arch with voussoirs near the house. The inner face of the wall has remnants of a series of iron rings that were likely used in carpet preparation, probably in the early 19th century when Gilbert Henderson established a 'factory' in the village, which was already known for its weaving industry. Henderson's firm later moved to Durham and eventually became known as Hugh Mackay in the 20th century.