Eggleshope House East With Attached Outbuildings Eggleshope House West With Attached Outbuildings

Eggleshope House East and Eggleshope House West are two houses, originally united and later divided, with attached outbuildings. They were built in the mid-19th century for the London Lead Company. The houses are constructed of coursed squared coarse sandstone with ashlar dressings and chamfered quoins, with a rear of coursed rubble. They have a stone-flagged roof with stone gable copings.

The south elevation is two storeys, with 6 bays for Eggleshope House West, and an east pent addition of one storey, to which a one-storey, 5-bay outbuilding is attached at a right angle. The centre of each house features early 20th-century metal French doors with glazing bars, flanked by plain pilasters under stone-bracketed gabled hoods. The sashes with glazing bars have flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills; those of Eggleshope House West have plain glazing added in front of the original sashes. Stone block gutter brackets are also present. The roof has three corniced ridge chimneys at the ends and centre. A set-back pent addition, the front of which is obscured by a low 20th-century addition, links to the gable of the outbuildings.

The rear elevation features a central two-storey projection under a catslide roof on each house, with doors in plain stone surrounds. Eggleshope House East has a pedimented porch with plain round columns. Sashes with glazing bars are also present. The inner return of the outbuildings has wood lintels over two boarded vehicle entrances, and stone lintels over two boarded doors and a fixed light with glazing bars, with a brick sill.

The buildings are said to have been the home for many years of Ethel M. Dell, a popular novelist (1881-1939).