Eliot House

Eliot House is a house that has been converted into a care home. It was built in the mid-18th century and has undergone alterations and additions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with further changes made in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and features slate roofs with lead dressings, along with two brick end wall stacks.

The front of the house is three stories high and has five bays arranged in a 2:1:2 pattern, with the central bay slightly advanced and topped by a pediment. It has a brick plinth and an ashlar moulded coped parapet. The central entrance is a half-glazed 19th-century door with a plain fanlight and a moulded surround, sheltered by a 19th-century brick gabled porch featuring a semi-circular arch with a keystone and a pedimented lead roof. On either side of the door are narrow sash windows, and further out are single splayed bay windows with cross mullioned windows, a dentillated frieze, and hipped lead roofs.

On the first floor, there is a central Venetian window with Gothick tracery in the raised central head, flanked by pairs of cross mullioned timber casements. The second floor features a central Diocletian window with pairs of small square two-light casements on either side. The windows in the central bay have ashlar sills on brackets and plain rubbed brick heads, while the flanking windows on the upper floors have flat rubbed brick arches with raised keystones. To the right of the main structure is a two-story, two-bay 19th-century addition with a hipped slate roof and two tripartite windows on both floors.

Inside, the house retains its original mid-18th-century staircase, which has two turned balusters with knops per tread and a wreathed handrail with a carved string. The stair wall features dado panelling with raised and fielded panels, and the staircase hall is illuminated by a tall round-headed window with Gothick tracery. The front room on the left has an egg and dart cornice and a heavily moulded fireplace surround decorated with scrolls, flutes, and a dentillated cornice, mostly from the 20th century. The front room on the right includes a moulded plaster cornice, dado rail, moulded door surrounds, panelled shutters, and a wooden fireplace, also primarily from the 20th century.