The Close

The Close is a house from the 17th century, featuring a late 19th-century wing to the north and other additions and alterations designed in a 17th-century style. It is constructed of red-brown brick with false timber-framed gables and has tile roofs. The building is two storeys high with an asymmetrical facade that includes three gables, one of which slightly projects to create an L-shaped plan. It has rectangular collared brick flues set diagonally, with one to two flues per stack on collared brick stacks. There is a dentillated band at the first floor, and the timber casements project slightly, featuring billet moulding on the sides and stone cills. The doorway has an arched brick head, and the gable finials are timber and five-spiked, typical of the Leche Estate.

At the rear, there is a three-storey brick water tower that is integral to the building, topped with a hipped tile roof and a weather vane. Inside, there is a sandstone chimney stack with inglenooks and panelling that has been brought from Carden Hall, along with moulded brackets supporting a beam in the kitchen. The first-floor room has a partly exposed upper cruck, and the door posts feature pointed heads typical of the 19th century, with fielded four-panel doors.