The Old House

The Old House is a house dating from the mid-18th century with additions from the mid-19th century. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and has plain tile roofs. The original, three-bay, 18th-century range has a left-hand gable and two 19th-century ridge stacks. The brick gable has a coping with a kneeler and decorative dogtooth eaves. The house is two storeys plus a garret. A first-floor band runs around the building. The central doorway has a glazed and panelled double door. Flanking the door are single glazing bar sashes, and three similar sashes are above. To the left, set back, is a single-storey, two-bay wing from the 19th century, built of red brick with a slate roof, a left external gable stack, and two glazing bar sashes. To the right and projecting is a 19th-century red brick wing with ashlar dressings and red brick stacks to the rear and right. It has a decorative ridge, an ashlar coped gable with a finial, and is set on a plinth with a moulded ashlar band. This wing is two storeys plus a garret, with a single bay and a two-storey canted bay with a lead roof and raised brick eaves. The central doorway is accessed by three steps and features a glazed double door and overlight. Flanking the doorway are fixed lights with overlights. Above, there is a central sash flanked by smaller sashes. The windows have chamfered ashlar sills and lintels. A single trefoil fixed light sits in an ashlar surround in the apex. The right or east front has moulded eaves and features, from left to right, an arched fixed light, the external stack, an arched fixed light recessed into an arched opening, a glazing bar casement, and a pair of trefoil arched lights in a flush ashlar quoin surround. Above, there is a similar trefoil arched light and surround, with a single gabled half dormer containing a single arched sash to the right. The rear or entrance front has two trefoil arched lights in flush ashlar quoin surrounds. To the left is a diagonal buttress and to the right a gabled and coped porch with a moulded arched entrance supported on two colonnettes with foliate decorated capitals, a hood mould and decorative label stops. The inner doorway is pointed arched with a panelled door and a flush ashlar quoin surround. Above the door is a tripartite cross casement, the lights over the transom being trefoil arched, in a flush ashlar quoin surround. A single decorative quatrefoil fixed light sits in an ashlar surround in the garret. The wing to the right, set back, has two trefoil arched lights on each floor in flush ashlar quoin surrounds, the first floor window being a half dormer. Further to the right are various 19th-century wings.