Home Close and Attached Walls and Steps

Home Close is a house with attached walls and steps, built in 1911 by M.H. Baillie-Scott for E. Ernest Boorne. It is constructed of squared coursed ironstone, with a steeply pitched stone slate roof laid to diminishing bonds, stone coped gables with moulded kneelers, and diagonally set brick internal stacks and stone end stacks. The house has a long rectangular plan with flanking wings. It is designed in the Arts and Crafts style and has a single storey plus an attic. The front has a 9-window attic range. A gabled 2-storey porch features a plank door. A garage door and another 20th-century door are on the right. Ground floor windows include stone mullioned and transomed windows, with hood moulds and label stops. The attic floor has stone mullioned windows and three asymmetrical gabled half-dormers. The rear has a wide 4-centred arched stone doorway. A tall 4-light stone mullioned and transomed window serves the hall, and to the right are 5- and 6-light stone mullioned windows, also with hood moulds and label stops. The first floor has stone mullioned or mullioned and transomed windows. The interior is complete and unaltered, with stone fireplaces (one with a wood surround), panelling, plank doors with wrought-iron hinges, stone flags, and an open well staircase in a 17th-century style. To the rear, a series of walls, steps, and round-headed niches form a planned layout, also designed by M.H. Baillie-Scott.