The Old Estate House

The Old Estate House is a house dating from the mid to late 18th century, with later additions to the rear, 19th century enlarged window openings at the front, and 20th century renovations. It was built for the Winn Estate and features coursed limestone rubble with brick dressings, which is colour-washed. The house has brick stacks and a pantile roof, along with a timber porch.

The layout consists of a four-room front with a two-room central entrance-hall section to the right, and an outshut and wing at the rear. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has five bays. The open trellised gabled porch has a round-arched entrance flanked by geometric panels. The 19th century panelled door has a plain overlight and is set beneath a painted brick flat arch, flanked by 20th century replacement 16-pane slightly-recessed sashes beneath painted brick flat arches with 20th century sills. To the left, there are two 12-pane sashes with ashlar sills beneath painted brick cambered arches.

On the first floor, the windows are unequal 9-pane sashes with ashlar sills beneath painted brick cambered arches. The raised brick-coped gables have a projecting band that forms a raking cornice. The house features axial and end stacks with brick bands, cogged cornices, and square pots.

Inside, there is an original inglenook fireplace in the ground floor left room, and a 19th century open-well staircase with a ramped handrail and plain balusters. The bathroom at the rear has a re-set early 18th century corner cupboard with fielded-panel and glazed doors beneath a keyed round arch in a surround with fluted pilasters carrying an entablature with a pulvinated frieze and moulded cornice. The ground floor centre has a 19th century coved plaster cornice and window architraves, along with a probable re-set 18th century corner cupboard featuring segmental-headed fielded panel doors flanked by panelled pilasters with a dentilled cornice. The ground floor right room has similar cornices and ribbed architraves with rosette ornament, and panelled doors throughout, one of which has L-hinges. The corner cupboards may have originated from the now-demolished Appleby Hall.