Honister House

Honister House, originally two dwellings with a brush factory, dates from the mid 17th century but has origins in the 16th century. It was altered around 1830 and extended in the late 19th century. The building features a timber frame that is plastered, with some areas of weatherboarding, and has steeply pitched pantiled roofs.

The main block is a two-cell, three-bay, two-storey structure with an attic. To the right is a two-bay, two-storey section that has earlier origins, along with former factory additions from the 19th century at the far right. The main block has a central entrance with an early 19th-century vertically panelled door that has a pointed arched head and a plain surround. The elaborate doorhead is in a loosely Tudor style, featuring pendant drops, jewel lozenges, a pulvinated frieze, and dentillations beneath a cyma cornice.

Flanking the entrance are early 19th-century three-light cavetto mullion and transom glazing bar casements with hoodmoulds. The building also has three two-light gabled dormers and external white brick end stacks, with the left stack being part of the Drapery Stores and the right stack having a rebuilt cap. The lower two bays to the right include an entrance in a 20th-century porch, along with glazing bar casements and moulded coved eaves. There is a rebuilt cross axial ridge stack to the right of centre.

The former factory section to the right is a two-bay, two-storey house with a shallower roof pitch, featuring a central boarded door and glazing bar casements that are top hung on the first floor. A right end lean-to includes a former coach-house with segmental headed double doors. At the rear, the main range has a central two-storey lean-to with a first-floor leaded cross casement and a one-storey lean-to to the right. Behind this lower section, a one-storey and attic part brick gabled bay projects, with a 19th-century addition that has two external stacks and beaded weatherboarding at the rear.

Inside, there is an early 19th-century slung dogleg staircase with slat balusters, bar and indent ogee stop-chamfered cross axial binding beams, and a butt purlin roof with tension windbracing. In the lower section, there is an edge halved scarf joint, although much of the frame is concealed.