Raven House

Raven House is a farmhouse, largely rebuilt in the late 17th century, incorporating elements of an earlier 17th-century house and with 19th and 20th-century alterations. It is constructed of coursed squared gritstone with ashlar dressings, quoins, coped gables featuring moulded kneelers, a central ridge stack, one gable stack, and a concrete tiled roof.

The house has a central lobby-entrance plan with double-gabled rear ranges, one of which is a staircase wing. The south elevation is of two storeys and attics, with three bays and gables to the outer bays. A central doorway features a quoined surround and a massive lintel beneath a drip mould, leading to a plank door. Flanking the doorway are paired 2-light chamfered mullioned windows, with further windows in the gable apexes, all with drip moulds. Small oeil-de-bouef windows are positioned above the attic windows, also beneath drip moulds. Ball finials are present at the base of each gable slope, mounted on tapered finials.

The west elevation displays stacked 2-light chamfered mullioned windows to the gable of the front range, and two 2-light glazing bar casements in the west sidewall of the western rear wing. An altered 17th-century doorway retains some of its original quoined surround and now has a 20th-century planked door. A small, blocked 17th-century opening, possibly a fire window, is present, above which is a blocked inserted first-floor doorway. A roughly dressed-back string course runs above the fire window and the inserted casement, having originally covered doorway and window openings with a 17th-century moulding. The western rear wing continues at a reduced height, a result of 19th and 20th-century alterations, and retains a 17th-century two-light chamfered mullioned window between a section of the original string course.

The double-gabled rear elevation has staggered windows to illuminate the stairs at landing and half-landing levels, along with an attic light, comprising five 2-light chamfered mullioned openings beneath drip moulds. The gable of the western range only has two blocked single-light attic windows, with a lower continuation of the roofline below it, where the walling is of rubble work.

Internally, the ground floor rooms have exposed ceiling timbers. There are remains of a moulded plaster cornice in the eastern parlour and stone hearths in both ground floor rooms. The hall or house part has a recently added 17th-century timber overmantel with elaborate ornamentation. A fine staircase with splat balusters is also present.