Pennfield House And Attached Outbuildings

Pennfield House and attached outbuildings are a house and former lace factory dating from the late 18th century and the early 19th century. The house is constructed of red brick on a stone plinth, with gauged brick dressings to the south front and painted stone dressings to the north front. It has a hipped slate roof with brick side wall stacks and dentilled eaves. The main part of the house is three storeys and three bays, with a three-storey, five-bay outbuilding attached to the east.

The south front has a central doorcase with double doors, a surrounding light, and an elegant, traceried fanlight, all sheltered by an iron Gothick porch with four-centred arches, a castellated top, and pierced panels. Flanking the door are full-height glazing bar sash windows with flat brick arches. Above these are three smaller, similar sash windows, and above again there are three further small sash windows. The top floor was added in the early 19th century.

The north street elevation features a central flush-panelled door within a moulded doorcase with fluted jambs and a projecting hood. Flanking this are glazing-bar sash windows, each beneath rusticated wedge lintels with double keystones. Above these are three similar, narrower sashes, and above again there are three smaller sashes.

Attached to the east is an early 19th century lace factory, also of red brick with a plain tile roof, brick coped gables, brick gable stacks, and a sawtooth eaves band. The north elevation of the factory has a rendered ground floor with 20th-century sliding plank doors in the center, a plank door to the west, and a small, segment-headed window to the east. Above are five segment-headed, three-light windows with small panes and casements, and above again are five similar windows. A small early 19th century wing connects the factory to the house, featuring a segment-headed panelled door to the east at ground floor level, and two small-paned, segment-headed casement windows above.

Inside the house, a stick baluster staircase has column newels, and there are early 19th century reeded door surrounds with carved bosses to the top corners.