Linden House

Linden House is a rectory, now a private house, built in 1843/44 by architects Bonomi and Gory for Reverend H.S. Hildyard. An adjoining wing on the right was added in 1891 and was altered and reduced by one storey in 1970. The building features chevron-tooled dressed sandstone with chamfered quoins, and there are bands between the floors and at the eaves. It has a Welsh slate roof with stone ridge copings and consists of two storeys, a basement, and an attic with three bays.

The central doorway, accessed by four steps, has double three-panel, part-glazed doors set in a Doric doorcase topped with a sculptured shield featuring three mullets, flanked by scroll brackets on a hollow-chamfered base. There is a blocked basement window to the right of the doorway. The sash windows have architraves and flat sills, and there is a continuous eaves cornice with moulded brackets. The hipped roof includes a late 19th-century gabled roof dormer situated between two corniced stacks, with similar paired stacks on the north and south roof pitches.

The flat-roofed single-storey wing on the right has a three-panel door accessed by a late 20th-century stair with a handrail. The three-bay left return features sashes with glazing bars, including a 15-pane window on the ground floor, all with architraves and flat sills. Below the middle ground-floor window, there is a tablet inscribed: "H. S.H. A.D. MDCCCXLIII". The three-bay garden front has similar sash windows, with cornice hoods on brackets on the ground floor and stone bracketed window boxes with moulded rims on the first floor.

Inside, the house retains a dogleg staircase with turned balusters and square newels. The ceiling cornices in the ground floor rooms feature egg-and-dart mouldings, and there are six-panel doors in architraves, with entablatures on the drawing room doors. Panelled internal window shutters are also present.