Abbeydale

Abbeydale is a house dating from the early 18th century or earlier, with alterations made in the late 18th century and around 1900. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof covered with handmade red plain tiles. The main part of the house faces west and features an axial stack at the left end and a rear stack at the right end. There are two short wings at the rear with a stack positioned between them. The building has two storeys and attics, along with a 19th-century two-storey lean-to extension with a slate roof on the right side, and single-storey lean-to extensions at the rear of this extension and to the left of the left wing.

The front of the house includes one two-storey polygonal bay with sash windows and one square bay of sash windows on the ground floor. There is one sash window in the right extension and three sashes on the first floor. All these sash windows feature six upper lights and one large lower light, dating to around 1900. The house also has two casement windows in flat-roofed dormers with moulded cornices. The central entrance has a half-glazed door within a doorcase that includes fluted pilasters, a pulvinated frieze, and a moulded flat canopy. A moulded eaves cornice and a curved parapet on the right extension add to the architectural detail. A panel at the rear of the left stack is inscribed with "F.S. 1730."

At the rear right, there is a two-storey bow with sash windows featuring 10+10 lights, some of which contain handmade glass from the early 19th century. Inside the front range, there is a transverse beam with small roll mouldings and a similar axial beam; the left hearth has been rebuilt in the 20th century. A 19th-century cast iron keyhole grate is found in the left attic. Notably, early 18th-century patterned plaster in moulded panels, originally external, is preserved in the left rear ground-floor room and the first-floor room of the right extension, representing a rare survival that deserves special care.

The three-flight staircase leading from the first floor to the attic, dating to around 1800, features three turned balusters on each tread, scrolled tread-ends of an unusual design, and a moulded pine handrail that has been French-polished to match the mahogany rail of the later stair below. There are also two original attic doors, each made of three moulded planks with a top batten shaped to fit the roof. The rear left wing contains two chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops and an 18th-century wood-burning hearth with a rounded back, wrought iron hanging bar, and two trammels.