The Spinnneys

The Spinneys is a house dated 1898, built for Edward Percy Rose, a dentist. The architect is not known, but the design shows influence from the work of Ernest Gimson. The house is constructed of red brick and features a Swithland slate roof, with some ornamental half-timbering and pargetting. It has an L-plan layout with an altered service wing to the right and stands two storeys tall with an attic.

The entrance front reveals a left bay that projects and has canted corners flanking a massive external chimney stack. This chimney includes a diamond-shaped sundial, while the corners feature sash windows on the ground floor. The right bay has paired barred wooden casements with segmental heads. Between the bays is a canted brick porch projection, topped with a two-storey half-timbered belvedere. The front door is half-glazed and has a semi-circular panelled wooden hood supported by shaped brackets. Below the hood is a plaster tympanum with a relief of trees and the inscription "Welcome the coming/speed the parting quest." The belvedere above has two rows of leaded casements, whitewashed plaster infill between, deep flat eaves, and a conical copper roof with a lead finial.

On the left side of the house, there is a wide gable with a leaded Venetian window in the attic, a two-storey polygonal bay window with a flat roof and pargetting between the storeys, and other sash windows, with those on the first floor featuring wooden cornices. The centre of the ground floor is recessed, with a door and leaded casement sheltered by a bow timber verandah.

Inside, the house has contemporary fireplaces, one of which includes an inscription, and another features a panelled inglenook. The staircase has an arcade leading to the entrance hall, and there is a panelled second-floor room with a decorative truss. The Spinneys is part of a series of large, individually designed houses built in Kirby Fields for the professional and wealthy business classes around 1880.