Hareton House

Hareton House is a late 18th-century house, altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. It's constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with an ashlar stucco and painted front. The main block is nearly rectangular, facing east, with a slight extension to the back on the left side. Internal stacks are present at each end. A 19th-century extension sits to the left, and a 20th-century single-story lean-to is at the rear of both the extension and the left part of the main range, roofed with machine-made red clay tiles.

The front elevation has a four-window arrangement of 20th-century casements in original window openings, with a blocked window above the front door. A restored six-panel door with a plain overlight is centrally placed beneath a restored portico with two wooden, fluted Ionic columns. A stone step leads to the door, and a wrought-iron bootscraper is positioned behind the left column. The front elevation is of ashlar plaster, featuring a moulded cornice and a plain parapet. A gambrel roof is hidden behind a parapet gable. The left extension is painted on the front, with its own plain parapet and a Mansard roof. The right elevation is plastered, while the left has, on the ground floor, one original sash window with eight lights, having a segmental brick arch covered with perforated zinc on what appear to be original horizontal iron bars. The first floor of the left elevation features two 20th-century sashes with six lights, again with plain brick heads. A plaster band runs along the facade, topped by a plain parapet. The rear elevation exhibits one original sash window with eight lights and a segmental brick arch, alongside three 20th-century French windows set into early 19th-century openings. A short stub wall at the north end preserves the profile of a former early 19th-century verandah with a tented canopy, with marks on the brickwork indicating its presence at the opposite end.

The interior retains three sets of early 19th-century folding shutters, several six-panel doors, and an early 19th-century staircase with a mahogany handrail, two stick balusters per tread, turned pine newels, and moulded tread ends. This staircase appears to have been repositioned from its original location, rising from the front door, to its present position against the rear wall in the late 19th century. This relocation coincided with blocking the window above the front door and relocating some ground-floor internal doorways. An early photograph depicts the left wing as single-story with a plain parapet level with the sill of the first-floor windows of the main block. The Ordnance Survey First Edition map of 1873 indicates the house was known as The Vicarage, with a large garden extending south, providing direct access to the churchyard.