Whitecote House With Adjoining Ranges

Whitecote House is a large house with attached warehouses, built in the late 18th century and restored and converted to residential use around 1990. It is constructed of coursed squared hammer-dressed gritstone and features stone slate roofs. The house has two storeys with an attic and is three bays wide, with quoins. There are flanking single-storey wings: one on the north side, which has been converted into a house and consists of two bays, and another on the south side, which has seven bays and a ruined two-storey end bay. The building has cellars throughout.

The facade facing the canal includes stone steps leading up to a panelled door with an overlight, framed by an architrave with a cornice and fluted frieze. It features restored 16-pane sash windows in plain surrounds, a blocked round window in the gable, and an architrave at the centre of the first floor. There are bands at the floor and eaves levels, and a square ashlar stack at the centre of each roof slope.

At the rear, there is a central doorway in a plain surround, with a tall round-headed stair window above, and additional 16-pane sashes along with a round-arched window in the gable. The north wing has new windows that obscure the original arrangement of a window and loading door, which has steps leading down to the cellar on the canal side, as well as arched openings low down on the left return. The south wing retains its original doorway in a plain surround, located close to the house on the left, along with 20th-century windows and cellar openings below. The raised ground level hides original openings in the ruined bay, but a lintel on the left return, where the bay slightly projects from the line of the south wing, suggests there was access to the cellar at this point, similar to the south wall.

The interior of the house has not been examined, but the cellar below the north wing features a stone-flagged floor and cast-iron columns supporting timber cross beams. Blocked round-arched recesses indicate previously blocked access to the house cellars. The south wing has a roof structure consisting of six pegged double queen-post trusses and a spine wall that supports cross beams spanning approximately 12 meters. This building is an important canalside range, possibly linked to local brewery ownership, as the positions of the warehouse doorways correspond to the narrow gates in the canal-side railings.