Earlsdale

Earlsdale is a small country house built mainly between 1820 and 1830 for William Heighway, incorporating parts of a late 17th century stone farmhouse. The house features a painted brick facade, a slate hipped roof, and red brick stacks. The late 17th century section is L-shaped and has a Gothick facade on the north and west walls. Around 1920, a studio designed as a low embattled tower was added to the second floor on the south side.

The building is two storeys high with an embattled eaves parapet. The north front has four bays and includes a two-storey embattled porch with stepped buttresses and an oriel window in the third bay from the left. The windows are all Gothick casements, with two-light windows on the first floor and a lower right window that is now blind, both featuring hood-moulds. There are also four-light canted bay windows with embattled parapets to the left and right of the porch, and a two-storey canted bay at the north-west corner, which also has Gothick fenestration. The interior has not been inspected, but aside from a doorcase with a broken pediment in the principal ground floor room, it is reported that there are no original Gothick features.