Fruitlands and length of garden wall

Fruitlands is a farmhouse dating from the late 18th century, with later additions and alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of red brick with coursed sandstone blocks in places, under plain tiled roofs with brick end stacks.

The building has an L-shaped plan, comprising a late-18th-century two-storey main house with attic and cellar, a one-and-a-half storey rear range, and a single-storey former outbuilding or pigsty added in the later 19th century, now integrated into the house.

The main part is three bays wide with its principal elevation facing east. This elevation has a stone plinth and dentilled eaves cornice. The asymmetrical façade features a slightly off-centre entrance with a flat canopy, entablature and pilaster surround, and a six-panelled door with the upper two panels glazed. There is a window on either side of the doorway and three first-floor windows. The original segmental-arched windows have been replaced with horned timber sashes and their segmental-arched lintels with flat heads of gauged bricks. Each gabled end has a late-20th-century first-floor window. The north elevation contains a shoulder chimneystack and four ground-floor windows of late-20th-century date, including a bow window, as well as a late-20th-century dormer window. The south elevation of the former outbuilding contains a 19th-century two-light casement and a blocked doorway to the right with an inserted single window of coloured glass. The rear range, extended in the 1970s, has two late-20th-century casement windows and a doorway, with a late-20th-century window to the first floor of its west gable end.

Internally, the front door opens onto a hallway with a late-18th-century staircase featuring a simple, elegant turned newel post with inlaid moulded cap, straight wooden balusters and an inlaid wooden handrail. Raised and fielded six-panelled doors lead to the two ground-floor principal rooms. The right-hand room has a large inglenook fireplace brought forwards and rebuilt in brick in the 1970s, though the timber bressumer has been retained. This room also features a chamfered ceiling beam and exposed joists. The wall between this room and the former pantry has been removed to create a larger space. The left-hand room has a decorative 19th-century fireplace surround introduced from elsewhere. Stone steps at the far end of the hall lead to the cellar, which has a brick floor. The rear range contains a kitchen with utility and cloakroom beyond. The first-floor layout has been slightly reconfigured for improved access; the two front bedrooms have four-panelled doors. The attic staircase has been largely replaced, though the late-18th-century handrail and stick balusters to the landing remain. The roof structure features common rafters with a single row of purlins, visible in the two attic bedrooms.

The north wall of the former outbuilding continues westwards to form a garden wall, its lower courses built of large sandstone blocks with brickwork to the upper parts. This wall contains two doorways.