Avenels

Avenels is a large house dated 1680, with an 18th-century addition and 19th-century alterations. The interior was remodeled around 1900 for Mr. Waring of Waring and Gillow, featuring Queen Anne revival details. The building is timber framed with roughcast render and painted brick, topped with plain tiled roofs. It has two rebuilt red brick ridge stacks, a side stack, and two rear stacks.

The house is two storeys high with attics and has a long southeast-northwest range of seven unequal bays, with earlier gabled ranges at oblique angles to the rear. The main elevation features a hipped roof with a deep modillioned cornice, three flat-roofed dormer windows with casements, and an entrance porch to the left of center that has a flat roof and wrought iron balustrade. The porch contains double six-panelled doors and a fanlight with glazing bars in a round-headed arch. There are glazed double door entrances from the first floor to a balcony, a large bow window on the right side, and four transomed casement windows, with seven similar windows on the first floor.

Inside, there are chamfered ceiling beams, late 17th-century or early 18th-century bolection-moulded oak panelling of two heights in the south room, and early 19th-century and Queen Anne revival chimney pieces with marble inner surrounds and tiled backs. A balustraded staircase at the rear of the entrance hall links the various floor levels, and there is a coved ceiling in the rear first-floor room.