Sloe House

Sloe House is a house dating to circa 1820, with later 19th-century additions. It is constructed of stuccoed brickwork with a slate roof. The house is approximately square in plan, with the main entrance facing west and the garden elevation to the east, and a service wing to the north. It has two storeys.

The east elevation features, on the ground floor, two original sashes with twelve lights and semi-circular heads containing cathedral glass. The first floor has two original sashes of three plus six lights, and two of two plus four lights. A late 19th- or early 20th-century glazed door with sidelights and a fanlight is set within a full-width segmental arch, centrally placed on the main house. A late 19th-century cast iron verandah, with a gabled entrance opening, pierced geometrical stanchions and brackets, and a slate and glass roof, extends around half of the south elevation. The interior retains much of the original circa 1820 character, with simple doors, architraves, and reeded cornices. Original folding shutters feature in all windows, along with two Adam-style wooden fire surrounds, stripped of paint, and four Regency cast iron grates of various designs. The entrance lobby has a stone-flagged floor and a shallow vault of a Soane-like design. A wooden cantilevered staircase, segmental on plan, leads to a cantilevered landing, which has a fretwork lattice pattern centrepiece and an oval skylight with a wooden external dome. An adjoining vestibule has a similar circular dome light. The roof space contains remnants of earlier roofs, likely dating to the 18th century.

The garden front has a large two-story bow with three sashes of six plus nine lights with semi-circular heads on the ground floor, and three sashes of twelve lights to floor level with small plain cast iron balconies, all curved on plan and with a flat roof. To the left of the bow is a late 19th-century splayed bay of two, four and two lights, with an original sash of four lights above. To the right of the bow are two original sashes of twelve lights, smaller than those elsewhere. Between them is a half-glazed door with a fanlight and radial tracery, and on the first floor, one large sash of twelve lights. The south elevation has a late 19th-century splayed bay with French windows and large two-light sashes on the ground floor, with two similar, but smaller sashes to the left. On the first floor are three original sashes of twelve lights. Much crown glass is present in the original windows. Much of the creeper covering the building had obscured the windows at the time of survey in October 1985.