Christleton House

Christleton House is a house dated 1760 on the rainhead, although its fabric and all details likely date from the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed of Flemish bond orange brick with yellow headers and features stone dressings. The building has a hipped Welsh slate roof and two brick chimneys, and it is square in plan. The east front is symmetrical with two storeys and three bays. It has a stone plinth, a moulded stone cornice, and a stone blocking course. The end bays contain 20-pane sash windows, with the upper panes featuring cusped pointed tracery. These windows have flat-wedged stone heads with scalloped soffits. The central bay includes an added detached wooden porch supported by fluted piers, featuring a triglyph frieze and a coffered ceiling. The doorcase has fluted columns with twisted capitals and a rectangular fanlight with intersecting tracery. Similar window treatments are found on the south and north fronts, where two windows are false.

Inside, the house has a double-pile plan and features six recessed-panelled softwood doors in panelled reveals, all with moulded architraves that have lion heads in the corners. The archway over the passage is adorned with moulded pilasters and a Greek key design in the archivolt, which continues in the ceiling cornice. The staircase is in Gothic style, featuring cusped headed iron panel balusters and a mahogany handrail. The room to the left has a cornice and a border of vines, with a central roundel surrounded by a border of roses. The fireplace in this room has a clumsy shouldered architrave, while the room to the right features a mantel supported by carved consoles. Similar fittings are found upstairs.