Greaves Park

Greaves Park is a large suburban villa, later used as a school and now a public house, dating to 1843, with a late 19th-century addition and 20th-century alterations. It was possibly designed by George Webster of Kendal and is built in a Jacobean Revival style. The house has an H-shaped layout, with a billiard room wing added to the rear of the southern cross-wing, and original service buildings to the south have been demolished.

The west-facing garden facade is symmetrical and two storeys high, with attics, and five bays. The mullioned windows have transoms, except for the attic dormers. String courses are positioned above each storey. The recessed central section has three narrow bays flanked by two broader, slightly projecting cross-wings. The central section has two four-light windows on the ground floor, three windows of three lights on the first floor, and two gabled dormers with three-light windows. The cross-wings feature two-storey canted bay windows with two-four-two panes, topped with strapwork cresting, and a three-light window to the attic.

The north-facing entrance facade is two storeys high and has string courses above the windows, with three wide bays. The central bay projects slightly under an attic gable, featuring a coping, a finial shaped like a bird with outstretched wings carrying a flag, and a datestone inscribed 'MDCCCXLIII', above a recessed entrance framed by a four-centred moulded arch. A first-floor oriel window is positioned above the entrance. Flanking the central bay are two ground-floor four-light windows and first-floor three-light windows, all mullioned and transomed. To the left, an octagonal turret has an ogee cap and finial. To the right, a projecting chimney stack carries a carved crest on the first floor and two octagonal chimneys with linked caps.

The interior features a polished limestone and marble floor in the entrance hall. Plaster cornices with deeply undercut foliage decoration are found in most ground-floor and first-floor rooms. The principal rooms on the ground floor have compartmented ceilings with plastered beams. A Gothic marble fireplace, possibly by Websters of Kendal, with a foliage frieze below the mantel shelf is in the central room on the garden front. The panelled doors have blind tracery and linenfold decoration; some window shutters also retain tracery decoration. The main staircase has a stone construction with a cast-iron Gothic tracery balustrade and carved timber newels. The first-floor billiard room has a timber lantern for lighting.