The Old House

The Old House is a house that incorporates former outbuildings, with origins dating back to the 17th century or earlier, and a later 17th-century wing. The building features a mid-19th century roof, 19th-century former outbuildings, and alterations from around 1960, which included new windows throughout. The structure is built from roughly-coursed ironstone rubble with brick dressings, while the wing has a brick gable and front in English Bond. It has timber lintels, brick stacks and additions, and pantile roofs.

The main part of the house is a three-cell range with a baffle entry, positioned gable-end on to High Street, with a projecting wing to the left that contains stairs and an outer room, forming an L-shape around a courtyard. The building is two storeys high and has two windows. It features a plinth and quoins to the right, with a two-panel door located to the left of centre. The windows are casements, with one located under a segmental brick arch, while all other openings are under timber lintels. The eaves are stepped.

The wing to the left has a moulded plinth on a rubble base and a bricked-up entrance to the right. The ground floor has casement windows under rubbed brick flat arches. The roof of the main range is hipped to the right, with a central axial stack, while the wing has an end stack and a steeply-pitched gable that preserves an earlier higher roofline.

At the rear, facing Stather Hill, the building is also two storeys high, with two low storey and single storey former outbuildings to the right, featuring irregular fenestration. The main range has two 19th-century canted bays to the left, with two casements to the right and three above under lintels. The former outbuildings are set forward and have two casements, breathers, and a blocked first floor opening under nipped and gabled roofs.

Inside, the main range and wing feature plain chamfered and ovolo-moulded beams, chamfered brick-arched fireplaces, and a re-set 17th-century balustrade with turned balusters and a carved string.