Calwich Abbey And Garden Steps

Calwich Abbey is a small country house that remains on the site of the medieval Calwich Priory, built between 1849 and 1850. The structure is made of ashlar stone with slate roofs and ashlar stacks, designed in an asymmetrical Tudor/Jacobean style. The garden front features an L-plan layout, with a compact main house on the left and a lower service wing on the right.

The main house is two storeys high and has roughly four bays. Its most notable feature is a projecting gabled break adorned with carved finials on the kneelers. To the left, there is a tall external chimney with paired stacks and a panel, while to the right, a gabled dormer is positioned close to the projecting gable. The house has raised and shaped quoins, a moulded string course over the ground floor that is raised irregularly over features, and a mitred and moulded eaves cornice above the gable windows. The large chamfered mullioned windows are transomed on the south return gable. The projecting gable includes a three-light window on the ground floor and a two-light window above, with a range of plain windows situated between the chimney and the projecting gable.

The service wing features two gabled projections, the left one topped with an apex chimney, and has a layout of roughly two-one-two-one bays. The south elevation has two gables, with the left one being smaller, each featuring a small panel. An octagonal link once connected the northwest wing, which has since been demolished, to the rear of the house. A flight of stone steps leads through the undergrowth of the garden to the south, while the entrance remains undiscovered. At the time of the survey in November 1984, the house was derelict and in a dangerous condition.