Outwood House

Outwood House is a house built around 1860, featuring an ashlar-faced exterior that is rusticated at the ground floor over a tooled plinth, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The building is two stories tall and designed in the Italianate style, with a square plan. It has a symmetrical three-bay entrance front that includes a shallow bowed porch supported by Tuscan pilasters and topped with a balustraded parapet. There are cast-iron lamp standards on either side of the doorway. The flanking windows are four-pane sashes with stressed voussoirs, and there is a pedimented architrave above the central first-floor window.

The garden front consists of three principal bays, featuring a pedimented central gable that is advanced. This façade is accentuated by paired pilasters at the first-floor level, a bow window on the ground floor, and three segmentally arched windows with key blocks above. The gable apex has paired round-arched windows, while the left flanking bay contains four-pane sash windows, one of which has been renewed in its original opening. A conservatory has been largely rebuilt against the right-hand bay. The side elevations are treated similarly, and the projecting eaves are supported by modillion brackets throughout.

Inside, the house retains significant elements of a late 19th-century decorative scheme, including elaborate wall paneling, plasterwork, fitted furniture, light fittings, and fireplaces, one of which features De Morgan tiles. There is also stained and etched glass in the lantern over the cantilevered stone staircase, which has cast iron balusters.