Sycamore House

Sycamoore House is a house dating from around 1710, with some 19th-century alterations. It features narrow pink brick with finely gauged red brick dressings on the front wall, while the side and rear walls are made of gault and red brick. The rear wall includes some timber framing. The 19th-century sections are constructed of gault brick. The roof is tiled and hipped, with a decorative wooden cornice featuring fine scroll modillions.

The house has two symmetrical internal stacks that originally had entablatures, along with a larger stack at the junction of the front and rear ranges. The main range faces the road and has a rear service wing, mostly rebuilt, creating an L-plan layout. The building is two storeys high with attics and has a symmetrical elevation of seven window bays, including three slightly projecting central bays. It features rusticated quoins and a band of chequerboard pattern brickwork. The original flat arches and window surrounds are made of finely gauged red brick.

On the first floor, one 18th-century hung sash window remains, while the others are 20th-century hung sashes with twelve panes each, installed when the windows were unblocked. The central doorway has a 20th-century doorcase. The rear range is originally from the 18th century but was rebuilt in the 19th century, and the roof was raised in the 20th century.

Inside, the layout includes a hall with an original hearth and a staircase turret featuring an open-well closed-string staircase with five flights. The balusters are of the slender twisted barley sugar type, and there is a moulded rail. Some early 18th-century raised and fielded panelling remains in this area. There are abutting inglenook hearths between the kitchen wing and the right-hand front room, with the kitchen hearth having been rebuilt. The right-hand room on the ground floor features early 19th-century stencilled floral pattern decoration, with a fragment preserved in the attic. The roof structure consists of tenoned purlins aligned but staggered at the hips.