Acomb House

Acomb House is a house that has elements from the 17th century or earlier, which was remodeled in 1737, as indicated by a dated keystone on the south door featuring the initials S M for Simon and Mary Mewburn. A stair wing was added and the north-east kitchen wing was remodeled around 1800, while the north-west wing was constructed around 1900 and the east wing was added in 1925. The front of the house is made of ashlar stone, while the other sides are built with coursed rubble and stone dressings, except for the north-west wing, which features snecked stone with rock-faced quoins and tooled dressings. The roofs are covered with stone slates, except for some rear slopes that have 20th-century grey tiles.

The south elevation is divided into two sections. The main part is three storeys high with five narrow bays, featuring a chamfered plinth and rusticated quoins. There is a former central doorway and all windows are plate-glass sashes, with raised moulded surrounds and keyed segmental heads. The gables are coped with moulded kneelers, and the end stacks have three shafts and moulded cornices. To the right, the east wing is two storeys high with two bays, featuring an eight-panel door with a radial fanlight in the left bay and 12-pane sash windows, with details matching the main block.

The left return is also in two sections. The right side shows the end of the main block with two blocked chamfered doorways and bricked-up openings for former stairs on the upper floors. To the left is the north-west wing, which is two and a half storeys high with two wide bays. It has a central projecting stack flanked by two-storey canted bays with flat-topped half dormers above, and all windows are small-paned sashes.

The rear elevation features a round-arched stair window that was reset in 1900, with a 24-pane sash and radial glazing in the head.

Inside, there is one contemporary ground floor room with fielded panels and a fireplace with an elaborate moulded lintel flanked by fluted pilasters. The dining room, dating from around 1800, has a plaster cornice and a stone fireplace. The drawing room, from around 1900, features a cornice and an ornamental ceiling. There is an open-well cut-string staircase with carved tread ends, stick balusters, vase-on-urn newels, and a swept moulded handrail. The first floor has late 17th-century to early 18th-century fireplaces, and the principal-rafter roof includes collar beams. Beneath the kitchen wing, there are twin barrel-vaulted wine cellars from around 1800.