Reeds House

Reeds House, originally a grammar school dating from the early 19th century with earlier origins, is now divided into two houses. The building is timber-framed and rendered, with decorative 20th-century pargeted panels. It has a hipped slate roof and four chimney stacks. The exterior is two storeys with a seven-window front. The first floor has twelve-pane sash windows, each with moulded surrounds. The ground floor features a central wide doorcase with pilasters and a hood on brackets, leading to a door of six raised-and-fielded panels with narrow sidelights and panels beneath. There are six similar sash windows on the ground floor, plus two simpler doorcases, one with a door of six raised-and-fielded panels, the other leading to a slated lean-to on the south-east side. The north-west flank, along with the ground floor of the rear elevation, is clad in black weatherboard. The garden elevation has five twelve-pane sash windows and two smaller sixteen-pane sash windows on the first floor, two twelve-pane sash windows on the ground floor, some later openings, and a boldly projecting semicircular bow window with a cornice to the flat roof, small panes, and thin dividing pilasters. The interior has not been inspected. The school was originally endowed in 1608 by Ralph Breeder.