Stirtloe House

Stirtloe House is a late 18th-century brick house featuring five bays and an L-plan layout, with a small vaulted brick cellar and two storeys. It has triped slate roofs and end stacks. The house was extended in the early 19th century by adding two bays to the north and south, as well as to the rear of the main range. The brick faces are rendered, and the facade faces west. It has a plain parapet and seven 19th-century first-floor recessed hung sash windows with glazing bars, along with four similar ground-floor windows.

A central open, semi-circular Roman Doric stone portico is accessed by semi-circular steps. The stone portico on the rear facade features a broken pediment supported by Doric columns. The front door, dating from the 18th century, has eight raised and fielded panels set in a recessed round-headed arch, topped by a fanlight with interlaced glazing bars. The rear kitchen wing, which originally had a sunken floor, includes a reset 17th-century mullion and transom window. The interior largely features 19th-century details, including an open string staircase and six-panelled mahogany doors in architraved doorcases.

Stirtloe House was the home of Lancelot Brown from 1784 to 1790, who was the son of the famous landscape gardener 'Capability Brown'.