Humshaugh House

Humshaugh House is a house from the early 18th century that incorporates elements from medieval or the 16th century. It was enlarged at the rear in the later 18th century. The house features a brick front and rear, with the west end made of rubble and the east end rendered. It has ashlar rusticated quoins, dressings, and a cornice, topped with a graduated Lakeland slate roof and stone stacks.

The south elevation is two storeys high with five symmetrical bays. The brickwork is laid in an irregular, largely stretcher bond. It includes a plinth, sill bands, a first-floor band, and a modillion eaves cornice. The central entrance has a renewed glazed door with a patterned fanlight, set within an eared architrave that features a pulvinated frieze, cornice, and pediment. The plate-glass sash windows have wedge lintels designed to look like alternately-raised voussoirs, and the ground floor sill band steps down beneath the sills. The gables have overlapped-slab coping, and the end stacks have been rebuilt.

The left return reveals the rear quoins of the early 18th-century house, with a blocked stone-surround doorway above, beneath the roof weathering of a removed structure. The rear elevation resembles the front, constructed of brick in English garden wall bond. There is a doorway in an eared architrave within a porch that has a renewed door flanked by rusticated pilasters with moulded bases, and a moulded cornice with a pediment, with later rendered infill on the sides.

The interior was renewed following a serious fire in 1969. A central spine wall, which is the rear wall of the early 18th-century house, is 1.2 meters thick and likely a remnant of an earlier defensible structure. The house was once known as the Manor House.