Att House

House. Probably built in the 17th century, but substantially rebuilt around 1700. Smaller southeast and north tiled extensions were added around 1961. It is a two-story and attic square brick house with a higher main range on the west, featuring tumbled brickwork to the gable parapets and twin rear wings with plastered gables. It has steep gabled old red tiled roofs. The brickwork is red in a Flemish bond pattern with black headers. A chamfered plinth runs around the whole house, with giant brick pilasters beside each corner on every face, and two more flanking the narrow central bay on the front and rear walls. The pilasters have moulded brick bases and caps, although those on the front have particularly fine red brick moulded caps. The symmetrical front has three windows across and a projecting floor band. The upper floor has three-light wooden casement windows. The jambs for wider, similar windows on the ground floor are marked by straight joints, with the current three-light casement windows being 19th-century replacements. The six-panel front door has a flat hood that has been renewed. External gable chimneys have offsets with chamfered plinth bases. Internally, a beam grooved for a partition, likely separating a buttery and pantry from an earlier house, appears to be in situ in the southeast rear wing. The main entrance opens directly into the larger front room, which has wide linteled brick fireplaces; a re-used, probably 17th-century chamfered and stopped axial beam is present, alongside exposed re-used joists. The front parlour has a chamfered cross beam, a moulded early 18th-century plaster cornice, and a two-panel door with a brass case lock. The brick fireplaces have curved rear corners, similar to those in the front range. There is a handsome early 18th-century dog-leg staircase with a moulded string and handrail, barley sugar twisted balusters curved at the base, and square newels with applied carved panels of flowers and ribbons on each face. The walls and upper part of the staircase are panelled, mainly in plaster, with a dentilled and modillioned cornice. The first floor has two-panel doors and HL hinges. Dormers for attics are said to have formerly been present, but the ceilings are now raised to collar level throughout the front range. Arched brick fireplaces are a feature of the front rooms. A staircase to the northeast rear attic is flanked by a timber-framed wall separating the front range from the rear wings.