The Battlies House

The Battlies House is a house that dates from the 16th century, with later additions from the 18th, early 19th, and early 20th centuries. It has two storeys and an irregular shape. The main range, built in the early 18th century, is made of red brick and features a hipped slate roof with a wide eaves overhang. An internal chimney stack has an ornate Victorian white brick shaft. The front bricks are laid in an unusual pattern, alternating between Flemish and English bond, and there are flat pilasters with simply-moulded capitals at the corners of both the front and side walls.

The house has three windows with small-paned sashes set in deep reveals, featuring gauged heads and chamfered jambs with keystones. The fine doorcase includes a fluted architrave and jambs, with ornately-carved console brackets supporting an early 19th-century replacement hood that has a shallow-pitched slate roof, fluted bargeboards, and a spike finial. The entrance features a wide half-glazed door that is slightly recessed.

To the west of the main range is a small mid-19th-century addition made of white brick, which has a hipped slate roof and sash windows with single cross-bars, flat arches, and simulated keystones. The complex rear range, which is at right angles to the front, is built in Edwardian red brick with 20th-century plain tiled roofs and contains the oldest part of the house from the early 16th century. This section is timber-framed and consists of three bays, with an integral chimney stack in a half-bay. One room on the ground floor has an exceptionally heavy ceiling made of plain joists and main cross-beams that have chamfer and curved stops. The other side of the stack features a one-bay room with similar main beams. No framing is visible on the upper storey, and the roof has been renewed.