Darkes House

Darkes House is a house built around 1908 by Ernest Newton for Richard Biddulph Martin. It features coursed dressed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and a stone tiled roof laid in diminishing courses. The roof is half-hipped at the east end with overhanging eaves, and it has a large ashlar ridge stack with moulded capping, along with a large stack at the east end that has three connected square shafts. The house is designed in an L-plan and consists of a single storey with an attic that includes half-dormers.

The north front elevation has two ground floor 3-light windows with flat arches and large keyblocks, as well as a narrow single-light window. To the right of the center, there is a gabled half-dormer featuring moulded bargeboards, decorative applied timber in the gable with roughcast infill panels, and a 2-light window. Beneath the eaves to the left of the dormer is a circular stair window. The main entrance, located beneath the half-dormer, has a cambered moulded canopy supported by shaped brackets and a partly glazed door. The date "AD 1908" is inscribed on the upper right corner of the front elevation. Adjoining the east end is a hipped-roofed single-storey wash-house that has a single-light window in its north front elevation. At the rear of the eastern bay of the main part, there is a substantial wing.