Arlescote House

Arlescote House is a large house dating to the late 17th century, with a significant addition from the mid-18th century and alterations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is constructed of regular coursed, almost ashlar, ironstone, with concrete tile hipped roofs that have a painted moulded wood eaves cornice, and stone ridge stacks with 19th-century square ashlar shafts. The building is arranged in an H-plan, with later additions to the rear and a wing to the left.

The front facade is symmetrical, featuring a seven-window range over two storeys and an attic. The central three bays are recessed. The entrance has a moulded architrave and scrolled pediment, surmounted by a late 19th/early 20th-century half-glazed panelled door with glazing bars. The windows are mostly stone-mullioned and transomed, possibly renewed, and have hood moulds. The wings have sash windows with mid-18th-century moulded stone architraves. Hipped roof dormers, with two lights of leaded glazing, are present over the centre and one over each wing. Irregularly placed stacks are also visible. A narrow recessed linking block connects to the left wing, containing a half-glazed four-panelled door. The left wing has two pairs of leaded cross windows with stone lintels and keystones. The left return side incorporates an internal stack. The right return side of the main block, now the main entrance front, is a three-window range. It features a late 19th/early 20th-century porch, with buttresses flush with the front, a coped gable parapet, kneelers with ball finials, and a chamfered four-centred archway with sunk spandrels containing raised circles. Inside the porch is a Tudor-arched ribbed door with a hood mould. The interior of the former entrance hall retains moulded cross beams. A large ovolo-moulded four-centred arched fireplace and C17-style panelling are later 19th/early 20th-century additions. A dog-leg staircase with winders opens off the hall to the left of the fireplace and features substantial turned balusters, a moulded handrail, and a gate on the landing with shaped splat balusters and H-hinges. A room to the right has early 18th-century bolection panelling and a stone bolection fireplace. Fielded five-panelled doors lead to various rooms. The rear of the house is irregular and has mullioned and transomed windows.

The interior also includes a dining room with an 18th-century style fireplace featuring an eared architrave and dentil cornice, and a bedroom with some painted fielded panelling and a wood bolection fireplace. The first floor has two-panelled and eight-panelled doors, and winder stairs lead to the attic.

The house is listed for its group value and architectural significance.