Wetley Abbey

Wetley Abbey is a large house dating to the late 1820s or early 1830s, with alterations in the 20th century. The building is constructed of dressed and squared stone, with a low-pitch roof hidden behind parapets. Designed in a "Gothick" style, it is partially cruciform in plan, with chimneys located to the rear. The entrance front is tall, spanning two storeys and featuring six windows arranged in a 2:2:2 pattern, plus a projecting gable with a pediment on the right. This section incorporates a two-storey, three-sided bay window. The larger part of the building to the left has thin, set-back buttresses, finished with crocketed pinnacles at the left end and the sides of the central projection. The windows in the outer two bays are labelled, two-light mullioned and transomed in a Tudor style. The central projection features two ogee-headed lancet windows with criss-cross glazing bars above an elaborately ogee-labelled Tudor-arch doorway, which has a criss-cross over-light above a double-boarded door, flanked by side lights. The house’s name was invented for romantic effect and there is no connection to a previous religious institution.