Greenstone House And Attached Forecourt Wall And Railing

Greestone House, now a college of Further Education, along with its attached forecourt wall and railing, dates primarily from the early 18th century, incorporating elements of a late 13th-century building and featuring additions and alterations around 1860. The construction is of coursed and squared rubble with stone dressings, and the roofs are covered in plain tiles, with three side wall and two gable stacks. One coped gable has kneelers.

The house is arranged as a two-storey plus attic, five-bay by four-bay L-plan. The main south front features a Doric doorcase with a pediment and overlight, flanked to the left by three 12-pane sashes and to the right by a 19th-century triple sash window. Above, there are four 12-pane sashes to the left and a single sash to the right. A triple sash is positioned between the floors. The single sashes have keystones, and the triple sashes have wooden lintels. The west front has four 12-pane sashes on each floor, along with four segment-headed dormers in the attic. The south gable has irregular 19th-century window openings. The interior remains uninspected.

Attached to the house is a forecourt wall built of brick with an ashlar coping. It is topped with an 18th-century wrought-iron spearhead railing, including a segment-headed gateway and a grotesque mask in the overthrow. The railing is believed to have been sourced from the dismantled Church of St Peter at Arches around 1936.