Abbey View

Abbey View is a house and former tannery, dating from the 18th century with alterations in the 19th century. It is principally timber-framed and brick, with plaster and weatherboarded sections, and a roof of handmade red plain tiles. The building consists of a long main range facing south, with axial stacks positioned at the left end, at the junction of numbers 57 and 59, and an external stack at the right end. Two short wings extend to the rear of the left part of number 59, and a lean-to extension with a slate roof is situated to the right. Another lean-to extension, also with a slate roof, extends to the right of the main range, wrapping around the rear corner. Further wings are located to the rear of numbers 57, with one wing being notably longer to the rear left.

Number 57 has a 19th-century facade of plastered brick. The ground floor features two 20th-century splayed oriel windows with casements. The first floor has three late 19th-century sash windows with segmental arches, each of four lights. A central 20th-century glazed door is sheltered by a gabled canopy supported by brackets. A plain band runs above the first-floor windows. The hips of the rear wings are visible above a low parapet.

Number 59 has, on its ground floor, two late 19th-century splayed bays of sash windows, each with a 2-4-2 light arrangement. The first floor features two Venetian groups of late 19th-century sash windows, each with a 2-6-2 light arrangement, and a central sash. The central door consists of six panels – the bottom panels being flush, the middle panels fielded, and the top panels glazed – within an early 19th-century doorcase featuring panelled jambs, a soffit, plaster pilasters with stone bases, an entablature, and a pediment. A moulded stone step leads to the door. Rusticated quoins are present, and a dentilled cornice with bracketed corbels sits level with the parapet of number 57, followed by a plain parapet extending to the right. All windows in number 59 have late 19th-century louvred external shutters with wrought-iron fastenings. It is reported that the roof encloses the original roof of the tannery. Late 19th-century carved bargeboards adorn all rear gables. The right lean-to has external plain shutters covering two windows. Stone paving with three stone steps descends to the edge of the road in front of number 59's door.

The site was previously Swinborne's Tannery in the 18th and 19th centuries, and later operated as The Blue Boar Inn. The current owner possesses deeds dating back to the time of Charles I and reports archaeological evidence of the former tannery.