Mortimer House

Mortimer House is a large house, now used as a home for older people. It was originally built in the late 18th century and has been extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. The house is constructed of brick with vitreous brick headers, and has a low-pitched slate hipped roof of varying heights. The original design was rectangular, with later extensions to the left side and the rear.

The house has two storeys and attics, with several chimneys irregularly spaced. The south front features a plinth, red brick dressings, a cornice, and a plain parapet with stone coping. It has five bays, with sash windows with glazing bars in architrave frames, and rubbed brick heads; the ground floor windows have taller brick heads. The central bay slightly projects and contains a circa 1900 closed porch with a lean-to tiled roof and a pair of half-glazed entrance doors with a stone head. A tall, 4-light casement window, set within a square bay with stone coping and a flat roof, replaced earlier windows to the right of the porch in the early 20th century. A two-bay wing, set back and dating from the 19th and 20th centuries, is located to the left, with further recessed single-bay extensions to its left.

Inside, an 18th-century staircase has iron scrolled balusters, moulded tread ends, a string, and a moulded handrail, with an inlaid star pattern on the wringing. A domed lantern light with a cornice sits above the staircase hall. Doorcases in the hall on both levels have moulded architraves, panelled linings, and carved cornices. In the main ground floor room are two Corinthian pilaster arches. An early 17th-century carved wood overmantel with bead and reel ornament is found in an attic bedroom within a 19th-century extension, along with an early 19th-century firebasket.