Bleak House

Bleak House is a late 18th-century house and manufactory, with additions from the 19th century. It is constructed of painted brick on a red brick base, with a slate roof. The house is two storeys high, with a moulded wooden dentil eaves cornice and a hipped roof, featuring stacks at the rear. The fenestration is regular, comprised of two two-storey canted bays, with the eaves cornice carried over their heads and repeated over the ground floor openings. There is a blocked window space in the centre of the first floor and a central door consisting of six raised and fielded panels, accompanied by a semi-circular traceried fanlight and an open pediment supported by engaged columns. A two-storey rear wing with a pantiled roof is visible to the right, featuring a continuously glazed upper storey and ground floor. A half-glazed, elliptically headed door, set within a glazed surround and small framed glazing panels, is also incorporated into the rear wing.