Kinton House

Kinton House is a farmhouse, later converted into a house, dating from the late 18th or early 19th century and enlarged in the early 19th century. It is constructed of red brick, with traces of former limewash, and has slate roofs. The building has an L-shaped layout with a later service wing, evident from a straight joint. It is three storeys high with a two-storey wing. The external features include a toothed brick eaves cornice, with remnants of a wooden dentil eaves cornice to the rear. There are brick end stacks to the right and an integral lateral brick stack to the rear. A central first-floor window has small, multi-pane glazing bars with a keyed grey sandstone lintel and stone sill. The entrance door, to the left, has six raised and fielded panels, panelled reveals and soffit, an architrave with shaped brackets (likely originally under a hood), and a grey sandstone Tuscan porch with two columns, a frieze, moulded cornice and blocking course. The rear of the house has two bays plus one, with glazing bar sashes and keyed grey sandstone lintels, along with painted stone lintels. The right-hand first-floor window is taller, presumably to light the staircase. A further door to the right has six raised and fielded panels, two of which are glazed, with panelled reveals and soffit, a plain architrave and shaped brackets to a triangular-pedimented hood. The wing has a sandstone plinth, a dentil brick eaves cornice, and a hipped roof to the front. It has two bays to the front with glazing bar sashes and stone cills and lintels, with the right-hand ground floor window blanked. The left-hand return front has three irregularly spaced glazing bar sashes on each floor, all with stone cills and lintels. The gable end to the rear features segmental-headed small-paned cast-iron windows, with a boarded door to the right. A 20th-century conservatory is located in the rear angle. The interior was not inspected, but a late 18th/early 19th-century staircase exists, with an open string, cut brackets, stick balusters, and a wreathed newel. The building is included on the register for group value.