Spout House

Spout House is a house that likely dates from the late 17th century and was extensively remodeled in the late 18th century. It is built from coursed, square sandstone with gritstone quoins and has a stone slate roof that is partly missing and partly replaced by Welsh slate at the rear. The building has a T-shaped plan with a wing projecting to the rear and consists of two storeys and an attic, featuring four bays with a central two-bay gable.

The house has large quoins and a central blocked door that has been converted into a window, framed by an eared architrave with a cornice. There is a similar surround, now rendered, between the third and fourth bays. The central door is flanked by 20-pane sash windows in chamfered surrounds with projecting cavetto-moulded lintels. The first floor has similar windows, with a central reset sundial. The outer bays feature two-light chamfered mullion windows on both floors, and there is a similar attic window in the central gable, mostly with leaded lights, although the ground floor bay four has a casement in an altered opening.

The building has moulded kneelers and gable copings on the end and front gables, with gadrooned finials. There is a truncated ridge stack to the left of bay two and an inserted stack in front of the ridge to the right. On the rear, there is a three-light double-chamfered mullion window on the ground floor to the left. On the left return of the wing, a quoin to the right bears the crudely inscribed date of 1671. There is a doorway to the left with a chamfered, quoined surround and a shaped lintel, along with a three-light double-chamfered mullion window on the first floor to the right. An attached building at the rear left in the angle with the wing is not of special interest.