Buckland House

Buckland House is a Grade II* listed house built in the early 18th century, likely for Ralph Freeman. The house features red brick with black headers and has steep hipped roofs that are now slated. It is a two-storey building with attics, designed in a T-plan and facing west. The front range has three lateral rear-wall chimneys and an internal chimney in the north service range where the building transitions from two to one storey.

The symmetrical west front is impressive, with a broad projecting centre. It has a window arrangement of 2:3:2, with a central door. The façade includes a moulded brick cornice, two hipped dormers behind the parapet, a plinth, and flush box sash windows with broad ovolo moulded glazing bars featuring 6/6 panes. The windows are topped with rubbed brick flat arches and projecting stepped white keystones, and they have bracketed sills.

A notable feature is the elaborate centerpiece, which consists of a pilastered Venetian window with a dentilled cornice and ogee tracery in the blind sidelights and rounded head. Below this is an Ionic doorcase with a key pattern frieze, a modillioned cornice, and three-quarter columns, leading to an early 18th-century six-panel raised and fielded door with H hinges.

The parapet is absent on the sides and rear of the house. At the back, there is a stepped plastered rear wing and a half-octagonal bay window in the parlour at the north end. The largest room in the front range features a wide east fireplace with a shortened moulded wooden lintel, which is believed to have come from a late 16th-century house, likely the manor house of the joint manors of Buckland and Horne located on this site. The room has a diagonal tiled floor of black and white tiles that mimic contemporary marble floors, and there are six-panel moulded doors throughout.

A later staircase is located beyond an arch at the north end, featuring turned balusters, a cut string stair, and decorated brackets.