Balscote House

Balscote House is a house dating from the mid-17th century with early 19th-century additions. It features a datestone from 1806 on the interior. The building is constructed of regularly coursed ironstone rubble and has a steeply pitched slate roof with two renewed stone ridge stacks. The stone coped gables are adorned with moulded kneelers. The house has a two-unit plan that has been expanded over time.

The garden front includes a left section that is lower and likely dates from the early 19th century, consisting of a single storey plus an attic. This part has a French door and 20th-century wood casements with wood lintels. The rear of this section features early 19th-century metal casements with wood lintels.

The main part of the house is two storeys plus an attic and has a four-window range. The entrance is off-centre to the right and features a renewed door with a renewed stone hood mould that has label stops. The ground floor includes three 3-light 20th-century casements and a small 20th-century window to the left of the door, all with stone lintels. The first floor has four 3-light 20th-century casements and four hipped roof dormers. The right end of the house has 3- and 4-light stone mullioned windows with hood moulds and label stops. The rear has a rectangular staircase projection and a rear entrance, along with a 20th-century flat-roofed extension. The first floor features 3-light casements with crown glass, lead cames, and bars, all with wood lintels.

Inside, the house contains a wooden spiral staircase, stop-chamfered beams, inglenooks with chamfered beams, a butt-purlin roof with a collar beam, plank doors with wrought-iron fasteners, and stone flag floors.