Perrott House

Perrott House is a house dating from around 1760, possibly designed by Robert Adam. It was built for Judge Perrot, the Baron of the Exchequer. The house is constructed of red brick, with some yellow brick in a Flemish bond pattern, and the rear and left return are stuccoed. Painted and part-rendered stone dressings are also present. The roof is hipped, covered with plain tiles and Welsh slate, and features brick end-stacks, a small off-ridge stack, and another to the rear.

The building has three storeys and three bays, with the central bay projecting under a corniced pediment. A moulded plinth is present, along with rusticated end-pilasters supporting a deep moulded cornice, linked by first-floor plat and sill bands. The second-floor windows are tripartite with bracketed sills, pilasters, cornices, and sashes divided as 4/4:6/6:4/4 panes. The ground and first floors have two-storey canted bay windows with pitched lead roofs in the outer bays. These have tripartite windows with sashes divided 4/4:6/6:4/4 on the first floor, and Venetian windows below, with 4/4:11/6:4/4-pane sashes, radial glazing bars to the centre, pilasters, and moulded cornices. A similar Venetian window with a bracketed sill is located centrally on the first floor. A cellar grille is present.

The central doorcase has three nosed steps leading to an eight-panel door, surmounted by a deep fanlight with decorative glazing and an archivolt with block voussoirs. Side-lights with octagonal panes are flanked by corniced pilasters supporting an entablature and rising from a deep plinth. An iron scraper is also present. The rear of the main wing incorporates Venetian windows to both ground and first floors, with triple sashes above, and a central, octagonally-paned glazed door leading up stone steps with side-lights and arched hood supported by wrought-iron brackets.

The interior features fine plasterwork in an Adam style to the walls and ceilings, along with mahogany six-panel doors, which are reported to have replaced earlier painted pine doors. Panelled doors and shutters are found throughout the house. The "Adam Room" on the rear left has richly decorative plasterwork to the ceiling and walls. It includes an oval mirror within a plaster frame above a grey-marble fireplace with a decorative mantel shelf and a chair rail, and panelled walls. The Dining Room at the front left has a ceiling decorated with a painted reclining Classical figure and busts, alongside a decorative cornice, and a grey-marble fireplace with an Adam surround. The Front Hall exhibits octagonal-paned glazing to the lobby, similar to the rear entrance. The Library on the front right has a remodelled marble fireplace with an inset steel firebasket, a cornice, and a replacement chair rail. A dog-leg staircase features stick balusters, a moulded handrail, restrained panels, and a glazed skylight.