Vale House

Vale House is a house that has been converted into offices. It dates from the 17th century, with a frontage block added in the 18th century, and has undergone alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building features colourwashed brick, stucco over timber framing, and brown stock brick, topped with a Welsh slated roof that has paired brackets at the front, while the rear has old tiled roofs. There are red and brown brick chimneystacks.

The front of the house has five tall 12-pane recessed sash windows with concealed sash boxes, set below rubbed flat arches that have scalloped soffits. The windows have stucco sills and panelled aprons, except for the central window. There are five similar windows on the ground floor, although the right-hand window has been infilled. A plat band runs at first-floor level, and the north side elevation has irregular fenestration. The entrance is located in a tile-roofed outshut, featuring a large triple sash window on the first floor above the doorway, which has a panelled door. The doorcase is adorned with panelled Doric pilasters and a flat projecting hood that has a fascia frieze and moulded cornice, supported by slender cast-iron colonnettes that replace the original columns. To the right of the entrance is a lower 17th-century timber-framed and plastered block that has been significantly altered, along with a projecting 19th-century west wing that has a higher roofline. The 17th-century wing features a plastered gable, three narrow sash windows on the first floor, and a large projecting brick canted bay window on the ground floor.

Inside, the building has been much altered but retains some 18th-century cornices in the ground floor room, along with 19th-century fireplaces. There is an early 19th-century open string stair with bracketed treads, a moulded hardwood handrail with a wreath, and stick balusters. The roof over the long 17th-century outshoot has pegged halved rafters with collars and butt purlins.