Vinpenta House

House, dating from circa 1740. It is constructed of local brick in English bond, with limestone dressings. The roof is a mansard of slate, with end stacks. The building is arranged in an L-shape. It has three storeys, including a smaller attic storey. The symmetrical facade is framed by rusticated quoins and has a fine modillion main cornice of stone, divided by a plain stone band between the ground and first floors. It has five window bays, with a wider central bay. The attic storey has a range of four hung sashes, each of nine panes, in raised stone surrounds with bracketed sills. A lunette window is also present, with a raised surround. The first floor has similar, but larger, fenestration with twelve-pane hung sashes, and a Venetian window to the centre bay. The ground floor windows are original. Two stone steps lead to a central doorway with a Venetian doorcase surround. A pair of 19th-century gault brick and stone piers with shaped coping remain of the front wall. A short length of wall, dating from circa 1730, links the left-hand pier to the house and has original stone coping and iron railings; only the stone base remains of the original front wall.

The interior features a central, two-storey hall and staircase bay, with an original modillion cornice and 19th-century plasterwork to the ceiling. A fine open-well staircase of three flights and a landing is present, with a closed string featuring a carved acanthus motif to the pulvinated frieze, and finely cut "barley-sugar" twisted balusters, square newels with recessed panes, and a moulded and swept rail. Raised and fielded panelling is present to the staircase dado. There are panels with extruded corners above the rear arches of the glazed lights of the Venetian doorway surround. Two doorways with raised architraves, pulvinated friezes and moulded cornices lead off the hall. The room to the left-hand side, probably the parlour, is lined with slender bolection moulded panelling and has dentil enrichment to the cornice. The mantelpiece is carried on scroll brackets enriched with drops and has a frieze of finely carved fruit, flowers and foliage. The overmantel has a ramped surround, also enriched with drops of fruit, and a cornice, containing a lozenge-shaped cartouche within the panel. On the first floor, two similar doorways lead to chambers, both with original fireplaces, and one has an overmantel and panelled dado.