Morton House

Morton House is a small country house built in the early 18th century, with significant additions and alterations made in the early 19th century. The building is constructed from rendered brick with ashlar dressings and features hipped slate roofs, some of which are partly lead dressed, along with four wall stacks. It has a U-shaped plan with three bay sides.

The front of the house is two storeys high and consists of seven bays, featuring a plinth, a first-floor band, and a dentillated cornice. The arrangement of the bays is 1:1:3:1:1, with the end bays recessed and the central ones slightly advanced. There is a balustrade over the central five bays. The central entrance has a panelled door with a large square central panel and a traceried overlight above. A distyle in antis portico with two steps and a deep plain entablature flanks the entrance. On either side of the door are two deep glazing bar sashes with blind boxes, and beyond them are deep triple sashes divided by paired free-standing Ionic columns in antis. The flat roofs of the single-storey pavilions have antifixae at the outer angles.

On the first floor, the main block has five glazing bar sashes, with single glazing bar sashes on either side. There are pilasters at the angles of the building. Inside, the house features unusual Egyptian-style battered architraves on the doors, dentillated cornices, and in the hall, there is a fine semi-circular arch adorned with roses on the archivolt. The staircase is cantilevered with limestone treads and paired cast iron balusters decorated with paterae and leaf scrolls. The original early 18th-century house occupied the central five bays of the current front, and at the rear, the smaller early 18th-century brickwork can be distinguished from the larger bricks of the later wings.