Glanton House

A house dating from the mid-18th century, described as newly built in 1763/4. The house is constructed of squared stone with ashlar dressings. The front roof slope is covered with purple Scottish slates, while the rest of the roof is covered with Welsh slates except for the rear slope of the west wing, which has synthetic purple slates. The building is arranged in an L-shape.

The south elevation has two storeys and five bays, designed symmetrically. It features a chamfered plinth and rusticated quoins. The central entrance has a half-glazed door within a renewed lugged architrave, featuring a pulvinated frieze and pediment. There are twelve-pane sash windows in architraves with moulded sills. A moulded eaves cornice runs along the top, and the steeply-pitched roof has coped gables with moulded kneelers and stepped-and-corniced end stacks. The right return has a first-floor sash window and an eight-pane attic sash in raised stone surrounds. The four-bay left return also displays similar detailing; the right bay's windows are blocked except for the eight-pane attic sash.

The west wing, to the left, has 18th-century sash windows with thick glazing bars to the first floor and the ground floor on the left. Two ground-floor sashes have been renewed, the one on the right being within a new architrave, replacing a former doorway that now leads to an outshut. A stepped-and-corniced end stack is present, along with a smaller ridge stack.

The rear elevation includes a contemporary outshut to the main range, showcasing a fifteen-pane fixed casement stair window in a raised stone surround with a narrow chamfer. The gable end of the west wing has a renewed eight-pane attic sash within a stone surround.

The interior features fielded-panel doors, some on left-hand hinges, and folding panelled shutters. The dining room contains a panelled dado, a dentil cornice, and a late 18th-century fireplace. The drawing room has panelling on the south wall. The kitchen has a chamfered fireplace with a shallow segmental arch retaining an old smoke jack and spit. A dog-leg closed-string staircase has column-on-vase balusters, a moulded wreathed and ramped handrail, moulded newels and a curtail step. Bedroom fireplaces are surrounded by enriched woodwork and include original ironwork. The original collar-beam truss roofs consist of a seven-bay structure over the main block and a five-bay structure over the wing. The trusses feature elbowed uprights rising from the inner wallface and halved into the feet of the principal rafters, with two levels of purlins and diagonally-set ridge timbers. Carpenter's numbering is marked on all trusses.