Estate Office And Clerk'S House

The estate office and clerk's house, dating to approximately 1890, was designed by John Birch for Sir Tatton Sykes, 5th Baronet. It is constructed of reddish-orange brick in an English garden wall bond, with ashlar dressings and a plain tile roof. The building comprises two offset blocks.

The estate office is a single-story, two-bay structure, with the left bay projecting and being gabled. The left return of the clerk's house is a two-story, two-bay range set back to the left of the estate office.

The estate office features a plinth with chamfered ashlar copings. An entrance door, set back on the right side, is housed within a 4-centred, moulded ashlar surround under a wooden gabled porch. A canted bay window to the left side has a central three-light opening with side lights of single openings, featuring ovolo-moulded mullions and transoms in a double-chamfered ashlar surround. Above this window is an ashlar plaque depicting a triton. The second bay has a three-light window with ovolo-moulded mullions and transoms in a double-chamfered surround, and ashlar quoins. A small gable sits above this window. The building has wooden modillion eaves, and a ridge stack.

The left return of the clerk’s house also projects and is gabled. It has a canted bay window with a central two-light opening and side lights of single openings, featuring ovolo-moulded mullions in a double-chamfered surround with quoined jambs. To the right of this is a three-light ovolo-moulded window in a double-chamfered surround, also with quoined jambs. The first floor has two two-light windows with similar mouldings and surrounds. A decorative slit window is set within a quoined ashlar surround in the gable, and there is a small gable above the second bay. The clerk’s house also has wooden modillion eaves and rear stacks.

The main facade of the clerk's house has a plinth with chamfered ashlar copings. The central entrance, with a board door within a 4-centred moulded ashlar surround and quoined jambs, is sheltered by a half-brick, half-timber gabled porch. To the left is a three-light ovolo-moulded mullion-and-transom window in a double-chamfered ashlar surround with quoined jambs. To the right is a similar two-light window. The first floor has a three-light and a two-light window with similar mouldings and surrounds. The gable contains an ornamental slit window set in a quoined ashlar surround, and a small gable sits above the right bay.