Colne House

Colne House is a house built in 1869 by Frederick Barnes, constructed of red brick with machine-tile roofs. It has two storeys and attics. The east front features a two-storey canted central entrance bay with a four-centred doorway and arched lancet side lights on either side. Above the entrance, there is a first-floor window that is a quarter sash, also with a four-centred head on a hood mould. The building has a crenellated parapet and one bay on either side, both adorned with shaped gables. The left bay includes a two-storey canted bay window fitted with one-over-one unhorned sashes, while the right bay projects slightly and is illuminated by a three-light casement on each floor. In the attic, there is an arched two-over-two sash window, and the roofs are gabled.

The rear elevation is less symmetrical, featuring a gabled three-storey wing on the left with a triple-flued decorated internal stack, and a shaped gable on the right that is adjacent to a canted window bay with one-over-one unhorned sashes. Between these two sections is a crenellated parapet. A greenhouse, rebuilt in replica after a gale in 1987, abuts the left wing.

Inside, the house has a closed string staircase with turned balusters and a ramped handrail that ends in moulded hexagonal newel posts. It features four-panelled doors, marble chimneypieces, and the main ground-floor room has plaster foliage trails in the ceiling borders.