The Mount

The Mount is a house, now used as offices, built around 1800. It is constructed of brick with stone dressings, and the roof is not visible behind a parapet. The building has three storeys and a five-window range in the main block, with lower wings on either side. The central entrance features a porch supported by Tuscan columns, which hold up an entablature with a triglyph frieze. The windows are 12-pane sash types with flat-arched, finely gauged brick heads, and the windows above the door have stressed stone architraves. There is a continuous sill band at the first floor, along with a stone cornice and parapet. To the left, there is a single-storey, four-window range with blank arcading that contains 12-pane sash windows. To the right, a two-storey, single-window range has been added, along with a lower bay that features a canted bay window and a lantern light above. The building has gable end stacks. Inside, there is elaborate plasterwork decoration in some of the ground floor rooms, as well as a cantilevered stone stair with cast-iron balusters. Historically, this house is notable as the birthplace of Charles Darwin in 1809.