Handley House And Adjoining Former House To Left

Handley House and the adjoining former house to the left are a late 17th and early 18th century brick building, with later 18th and 19th century additions. They have stone dressings and hipped slate roofs. The building features a chamfered plinth, quoins, a first-floor band, wooden modillioned eaves, and two ridge stacks. The windows are glazing bar sashes.

The front elevation has two storeys plus attics and a five-window range with flat arches and keystones. Two low-pitched gabled dormers sit above. A central rusticated doorcase with a multiple keystone and cornice shelters a renewed two-leaf fielded six-panel door, with a matching overlight, flanked by two sashes. A three-bay rear elevation features two segment-headed sashes and a two-story segmental bow window with a parapet, incorporating a triple sash on each floor. Three gabled dormers are above, and a central half-glazed door with fanlight, flanked to the right by a blocked door and a segment-headed sash, is on the ground floor. The right side of the building displays three segment-headed sashes, with a late 19th-century single-story addition with a hipped and gabled slate roof to one end, featuring quoins, an external gable stack, two large segment-headed triple sashes, and a similar sash in the north end. The left end has a single segment-headed sash on each floor.

The adjoining former house exhibits a plinth, dentillated eaves, and three ridge stacks. Its windows are segment-headed glazing bar sashes. It is two storeys high and has a five-window range, with the central three bays projecting, featuring a blank opening and a larger sash to the left. A reeded wooden doorcase with a moulded six-panel door and an overlight (with a 20th-century hood) is centrally positioned, flanked to the right by two segment-headed sashes, and to the left a larger sash and a blank. Each end has two segment-headed openings on each floor.

Inside, a central four-flight open-well staircase has square reeded newels, a moulded handrail, and vase and stem balusters. The roof is a principal rafter design with single butt purlins and collars. The ground floor board room retains C17 fielded panelling, a C18 plaster cornice, and ceiling. A C19 marble fireplace with an overmantel panel flanked by single fielded cupboard doors is present. A first-floor front room has beaded panelling with a cornice and a Classical corner fireplace with a lobed overmantel. The right front room features a cornice and a matching marble fireplace dating from around 1830. Several fielded six-panel doors remain throughout the building.