Eltringham House

Eltringham House is a house with a core dating back to the 16th century, which has been altered and extended in the late 17th or early 18th century. It was refronted and modified around 1790, with further additions and alterations occurring around 1880. The building features an ashlar facade and dressings, with large random rubble in the older sections and random rubble elsewhere. The roof is made of Welsh slate and the house has a T-shaped layout, with later 19th-century additions to both sides of the rear wing. The front block has walls approximately 4 feet thick and consists of two storeys plus an attic.

The three-bay front includes a central six-panelled door and fanlight, which has intersecting glazing bars within a doorcase supported by Tuscan columns and topped with an open pediment. The ground floor windows are late 19th-century canted bays. The central first-floor window is set in a swept shouldered architrave, while the other first-floor windows are plain margined sashes. There are sill bands on the ground and first floors, as well as a lintel band on the ground floor. A moulded cornice projects over the central window, and there is a plain parapet with two dormer windows.

On the right side of the building, there is a blocked ground-floor doorway, likely a bastle door, featuring rounded jambs and a triangular head. There is also a similar blocked doorway on the first floor and an old, roughly-arched wooden relieving beam above a former fireplace. The rear wing has a tall round-arched staircase window with intersecting glazing bars and a flat raised surround with a fluted keystone. The rear of the house appears largely to date from the late 19th century, with gabled roofs that have steep pitches, flat coping, and kneelers on the older parts. Stone gable and ridge stacks are present.

Inside, the house features a late 18th-century staircase with a finely-moulded handrail and turned newels, six-panelled doors, and internal shutters. The roof of the older part has curved oak principals with a ridge piece and old purlins, although the collars were removed in the 19th century to create attics.