Glenwhelt And Glenwhelt Cottage

Glenwhelt and Glenwhelt Cottage is a house and cottage dated 1757 on the doorway, which incorporates remains from the late 16th to early 17th century, possibly from a bastle house. The building features a dressed sandstone front with squared rubble on the sides and rear, topped with a Welsh slate roof and ashlar chimneys. Glenwhelt has a double-range plan, with bastle remains in the left end of the rear range, while the cottage is positioned at a slight angle on the right return of the front range. The two-storey street front is situated on a sloping site and consists of six bays, with each house having three bays and the cottage bays being more closely spaced.

The left side has a chamfered plinth, a first-floor sill band, and raised-and-chamfered quoins. The doorway to Glenwhelt, located in the second bay from the left, is framed by Corinthian columns and a segmental pediment that contains a cartouche inscribed with "J A M 1757." Above the doorway is a broken stone sundial with a sun-face. Other ground-floor surrounds feature raised edges, friezes with blocks of vermiculated rustication, and cornices. The doorway to the cottage is in the second bay from the right, with a 12-pane sash window at the left end, a replaced casement in the center, and a tripartite window at the right end. To the left of the cottage doorway is a horse-mounting block. The first floor has replaced casements and sashes within surrounds that have raised edges. The steeply-pitched roof, which is two-span on Glenwhelt, has slightly-swept eaves, coped gables, and shaped kneelers, along with corniced end and ridge stacks. The rear range, which may include the bastle, has a wall that is 1.5 meters thick, large alternating quoins, and two inserted sashes. There is also a 19th-century single-storey wing at right angles on the right rear.

Inside Glenwhelt, there are mid-18th-century fittings, including moulded stone fireplaces, panelled doors in architraves, and a two-flight dogleg cut-string staircase with two turned balusters per tread and a ramped handrail. The ground-floor left room features a panelled dado, an overmantel with egg-and-dart moulding, and a modillion cornice. The possible bastle area has heavy adzed ceiling beams on the ground floor.