Rileys

A mid-18th century red brick house with a cellar, situated on a corner and facing east and north in an L-shape. It has a steep, old red tile roof behind a parapet, with gables to the south and a hipped roof to the west. A large internal chimney stack is centrally located on the north range, and a further internal gable stack is present to the south. A 1½-story rear wing extends to the southwest, featuring a slated gambrel roof. Attached to the south is a two-story coach house, constructed of timber framing, weatherboarding, and red pantiles, with a tiled gambrel roof at the west end, along with an adjacent timber-framed, weatherboarded range also with a tiled gambrel roof.

The east front, facing the road, has three windows centrally, with an additional narrow window above the entrance. The brickwork has stone coping to the parapet. The windows are sash windows with flat, gauged arches, slightly recessed, and feature early 19th century slender reeded architraves with corner stops. They have Victorian horned sashes with 2/2 panes. A fine 18th-century Roman Doric doorcase frames a 19th-century half-glazed door with margin lights and a deep flush-panelled reveal, including attached three-quarter columns and a full entablature with a triangular pediment, incorporating a fret motif to each metope.

The north front mirrors this pattern but has a blind recess in the centre on both floors, along with a Victorian oriel upper window to the west. The west face of this range features a square, two-story Victorian bay window with casements. Inside, the partitions are timber-framed, and the roof is constructed of re-used timbers. Recent fire damage has affected the interior, but some original features remain. The ground floor southeast room contains panelling with an 18th-century arch-headed buffet featuring fluted pilasters, shaped shelves, and fielded door panels, together with a 19th-century fire surround with stone slips and a cast iron insert. On the first floor, panelling remains on the west wall of the northeast room and the south wall of the southeast room, along with remnants of a timber cornice.

The south coach house has double doors and louvred shutters over the windows and a southeast range includes an outside kitchen with a large west fireplace. The kitchen is plastered internally, with the eastern half floored as a small room in the roof. The section closest to the main house is used as a scullery, connected by a single-story section with a slate roof containing a 7-paned Yorkshire casement and a six-panel door with raised and fielded panels. The building represents a restrained architectural design at the entrance to the town.