Lenton House

Lenton House is a house, now a company guest house, dating back to 1800, with additions made in 1816 and 1890. It is accompanied by attached outbuildings and a screen wall. The construction is stucco, with Westmorland slate hipped roofs and various rendered coped stacks. A moulded wooden eaves cornice runs along the building, and there is a plinth at its base.

The main house is two storeys plus a basement to the 1816 addition. It comprises three bays on the front elevation, and takes an L-shaped plan. Most windows are original sash windows with glazing bars; those on the south and west fronts have shutters. The south front features a two-storey, three-sash canted bay window to the right, and a blank space flanked by single windows to the left, with two windows above. The west front has a central bow window, two storeys high with three sashes, flanked by single windows. To the left is a garden shelter with two pairs of columns. The entrance front, facing a courtyard to the north, features a two-storey square porch with a cornice and parapet. The porch contains a recessed Doric portico with a panelled door in a reeded surround. Above the door is a round-arched tripartite stair window. A single sash window is to the right, while paired, smaller sashes are on the left, over three floors. The courtyard has a screen wall to the west, with a central gateway.

The 1816 addition to the east includes a rendered coped ridge and side wall stacks. It projects a basement with four small windows set under a balustrade. Above the basement are four ground-floor windows and three above, all unequally spaced, each with a segmental head. A low service range sits at the rear, flanking the courtyard. Further service buildings from 1890 are constructed of painted brick, consisting of three ranges, one single storey high and two two storeys.

Inside, a wooden dogleg staircase features a stick balustrade and ramped handrail. Ground-floor rooms on the south front have cornices, six-panel doors, a Classical inlaid marble fireplace, and a more elaborate fireplace with a figure panel, flanked by doors. Corresponding first-floor rooms and the landing have plaster wall panels, cornices, and two fireplaces. One room has a coved ceiling.