Dunford House

Dunford House is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the early to mid-18th century. It is constructed of brick with stone dressings and has a stone slate roof. The building has a rectangular plan with a shallow double depth and stands three storeys high with five bays in a classical style, featuring a symmetrical design.

In the centre, there is a doorway and a first-floor Venetian window, both adorned with architraves linked by an intermediate panel. The doorway is wide, with pilaster jambs, a triglyph frieze, and a moulded cornice. The Venetian window has a Gibbs-style banded head at the centre and Tuscan architraves on the side lights, which are ogee-headed. Above this, on the second floor, is a Diocletian window. The other windows are all sashed, with moulded sills and gauged brick heads that contain triple keystones. The ground and first-floor windows are 12-paned, while the second-floor windows are square with six panes. The building features a modillioned cornice, gable copings with kneelers, and gable chimneys.

On the right-hand gable wall, there is a doorway with a modern porch at the rear corner, a triple sash window above it, and a six-pane sash window on the second floor. Each gable has a fluted rainwater head at the returned end of the gutter cornice. The rear of the house includes a central round-headed stairlight, various blocked former openings, and marks of a previous rear extension.

Inside, the house boasts contemporary fittings and decoration of unusually fine quality, including panelled doors with shouldered architraves and cornices, an open-well staircase with curved brackets, an open string, three balusters per tread, and a ramped handrail with a wreathed curtail. The interior also features moulded plaster cornices, some modillioned and others with egg-and-dart designs, as well as fireplaces with shouldered architraves.