Long Acre

Long Acre is a house dating from the earlier 18th century, with features from an earlier 17th-century building which has been altered. The house is primarily constructed from handmade brown brick in stretcher bond, with stone quoins, but an earlier section at the right-hand end and the rear are of coursed sandstone blocks. It has a stone slate roof. The building is arranged in an L-shape, with the older section forming a short, recessed wing at the right-hand end. A modern addition to the rear of the left end is not included in the listing.

The house is two storeys high and has seven bays. It features rusticated long-and-short quoins and coved eaves. The original window openings were all vertically rectangular, arranged in a rhythmic pattern of wide (a), narrow (b), wide (a), narrow (b), wide (a). A former doorway in the fifth bay at ground floor has been altered into a fixed window, and a former window in the third bay is now a doorway. The third, fifth and sixth windows on the first floor are blocked. The window heads are made of gauged brick, segmental at ground floor and flat-arched above. The front door has fielded panels and a two-pane overlight. Cross-windows with horizontal sliding sashes are found in the fourth bay at ground floor and the second and sixth bays at first floor. There is a chimney on the ridge and at the right gable. A small window has been inserted into the left gable. The right-hand gable, constructed of squared sandstone up to the first floor, incorporates a three-light mullioned window at ground floor towards the rear, with “DAIRY” inscribed in the lintel. Above this is a two-light window lacking the mullion. The rear elevation has a three-light window at ground floor and a doorway with a cambered lintel in the re-entrant angle of the wing.

Inside, the middle bay features two longitudinal beams with stopped ovolo-moulding, the left ends carried on large moulded wooden corbels, suggesting the former location of an inglenook bressumer. Some 17th-century panelling is present in the kitchen of the rear wing, possibly a former parlour.