Priest'S House

Priest's House is a house dating from the early to mid-17th century, which was refurbished in 1978-9. It is constructed of banded limestone and ironstone rubble with a slate roof, featuring coped gables with moulded kneelers and roll-moulding at each apex. A central chimney is built of ashlar with a pair of square shafts, though the cornice is missing. The house follows a baffle entry plan and has two storeys and an attic, with two bays. The right bay has three-light windows with ovolo-moulded limestone mullions; the lower window has a casement cornice. Single lights with ovolo-moulded limestone surrounds and cornices are present in the left bay and to the off-centre staircase. The windows are fitted with leaded glazing. A central, gabled stone porch, dating to the 20th century, is positioned at the front. The gables have 20th-century attic windows. The rear of the house retains 17th-century windows with ovolo mullions to the ground floor: a three-light window is on the left, and a four-light window with a king mullion is on the right. However, the upper windows are 20th-century wooden casements. The interior features include stop-chamfered spine and tie-beams, and a stone fireplace with a four-centred arch in the right bay. A large fireplace in the left bay has a wooden lintel shaped into a four-centred arch with bracket-like ends and a moulded rectangular surround.