Valley House

Valley House is a house dating from the mid-18th century, with a core that dates back to around 1600. It is constructed of red brick, featuring bands of gauged brick at the first and second floors. The building has a hipped slated roof with an axial chimney made of red brick. It stands three storeys tall and has five windows, which are small-pane sashes with flat arches of gauged brick. The entrance consists of a pair of doors, each with three fielded panels, and is topped by a semi-circular fanlight with radiating bars. This is flanked by a pair of Roman Doric pilasters that support a broken entablature and a shallow pediment.

Inside, there is a notable mid-18th century staircase that rises through all three storeys, featuring console brackets at each tread, turned balusters, and moulded handrails. In the late 19th century, small single-storey bays of red brick with sashes were added to the left and right gables, and the second storey walls were raised while the roof was remodelled.

At the rear of the house, there is an earlier three-bay timber-framed hall range, along with a three-bay parlour cross-wing from around 1600. A fragment of a hall window retains a hollow-chamfered square mullion, indicating a possible earlier 16th-century core. The parlour features main beams that are channelled and have ovolo mouldings in two orders, and there is a good wind-braced clasped-purlin roof over the parlour wing. The rear ranges were largely encased in red brick during the 18th and 19th centuries.