The Brand

This is a house built in 1875 by Alfred Waterhouse for Arthur Ellis, with a minor addition in 1891 by M.G. Wigg. It is constructed of granite and slate rubble stone with a stone plinth, cornice, and dressings. The roof is Swithland slate, featuring twin spans, ridge tiles, and various ridge, valley, and end stacks, the lower parts of which are in rubble stone and the upper parts in ashlar.

The architectural style is Gothic, with an irregular composition of four gables and two and a half storeys. The windows are stone-mullioned sashes, with various numbers of lights. A gabled porch is centrally located on the right side, featuring a Gothic arch and a two-light window on each side leading to a double door. A small quatrefoil opening sits above. To the left, a large staircase window has three lights over a one- and two-light window. Another gable has a two-light window with a canted oriel bay above and a one-light window in the gable. A door is situated next to a one- and two-light window, followed by a half-dormer and a dormer above. The far-left gable features a three-light window on both floors, with an arrowslit in the attic. A one-light window is on the end, leading to a small walled yard accessed by two gate piers with further windows and doors. To the right of the porch is a one-light, a two-light, and a three-light window, alongside a two-light window in the gable. On the right end, there's a one-light window on both floors and a ground floor projection with a projecting stack.

The rear, or garden front, features a main range with a gable to either side with a large two-light half-dormer over a 20th-century window, which is sheltered by a Swithland slate canopy. A left-hand gable includes a square wooden mullion and transom bay of four lights, with side lights extending upwards under a Swithland slate roof to form a canted bay. A right-hand gable has a stone mullion and transom canted bay with a Swithland slate roof and a three-light window above. Small quatrefoil openings are present in the attics of both gables. A ground-floor one-light window is present on the left end, with a side projecting stack. A French window with a one-light half-dormer sits above on the right end. Further right is a slightly set-back range with, from left to right, a door with a two-light window and two one-light windows above. It is followed by a large gable with a three-light window, a two-light window over, and an arrowslit in the attic, then a two-light window with a canopy, a group of three one-lights, and a group of two one-lights with a one-light half-dormer and a 20th-century two-light window above. A door and two one-lights are on the right end.

Inside, the house features contemporary pine staircases, fireplaces, four-panelled doors, and simple cornices, along with a row of internal bells. A bedroom includes a pair of massive X beams resting on stone corbels.