Waterend House

Waterend House is a mid-17th century house constructed of red brick with cement dressings and a plain tile roof. It has two storeys and attics, featuring a five-window main front with three equal parapet gables that have moulded brick coping. Beneath these gables are two-storey shallow-projecting window bays with stone quoins and stone-dressed five-light mullion and transom windows. The attics contain three-light windows with thin hood moulds. The intermediate bays feature square-headed doors with moulded brick surrounds and hoods, with two-light windows above them. There are cornice bands on the first and second floors with single cut-brick cyma recta mouldings, and original brick finials adorn the gables. Behind the roof, three tall chimney stacks with grouped octagonal shafts are moulded at the bases and caps.

The rear elevation creates an open courtyard with two projecting gable ends, which also have coping and finials, along with first-floor bands and three-light windows. To the center left is a narrow gabled stair turret with a four-centre arch door, and to the right is the central chimney stack featuring a diaper brick pattern. All elevations have square leaded casements.

Internally, the house boasts an unusually large central hall with exposed chamfer-stopped beams and a broad stone fireplace. There is an original simple oak spiral staircase in the turret and a smaller late 17th-century newel staircase in the opposite angle leading to a first-floor northeast room that has a fireplace inscribed with the date 1692. Waterend House is an exceptionally complete example of a mid-17th century medium-sized country house.