Mustow Corner House Mustow House The Garden House

This is a house, originally a single building, now divided into three separate dwellings: Mustow House, Mustow Corner House, and The Garden House. The property dates to the 16th and 17th centuries, with significant alterations and a refronting in the 18th century, followed by further changes in the early 19th century. The front is of red brick with a plain parapet, a moulded brick cornice and fascia, and rendered sides and rear. A timber-framed structure lies beneath. The roof is covered in plain tiles.

The building is three storeys high, with a cellar, and has a nine-window front, arranged in three bays of three windows each, with the central bay projecting slightly. The windows are sash windows with a single vertical glazing bar, set within flush cased frames. The windows on the second floor are smaller, with a raised stone band beneath the sills. The central entrance has double doors with three sunk panels in each leaf, topped with a rectangular fanlight. A mid-19th century wood doorcase features a flat pediment supported by moulded brackets and an ornamental iron balcony above. The rear of the building has two gabled sections with small-paned sash windows in flush cased frames. The Garden House, accessed at the rear, is three storeys high and rendered on its east side, with a red brick gable. It has two 16-pane sashes in flush cased frames.

The interior of Mustow House includes a cellar with plastered walls, partially vaulted. The entrance hall features boxed-in beams, panelled walls, and a 16th-century open fireplace with stone jambs and a cambered timber lintel. The floor is paved with encaustic tiles designed during the 19th century, depicting a central motif of Ceres, surrounded by Greek heads and Classical ornamentation. A parlour off the entrance hall has bolection-moulded panelling, a dado rail, a panelled cornice, and a boxed-in main beam. A fine mid-17th-century open well staircase has a balustrade with dumb-bell balusters, square newel posts with moulded heads, moulded handrails, and closed strings. The ceiling above the staircase has been raised and coved. Original heavy timber studding is exposed along the rear wall of the front range on the first floor. The top storey is an early 19th-century addition. Mustow Corner House contains a ground floor room with bolection-moulded panelling, a dado rail, and a fireplace surround. During restoration in the 1980s, the original timber front wall was uncovered and remains in place. The early 19th-century extension to the west and the addition of the top storey were undertaken at the same time as the refronting, transforming the building from a two-storey structure with dormer windows to the present form.