Longcot House

Longcot House is a circa 1703 building, as evidenced by a lost datestone, with a substantial early 19th century front elevation. The house is constructed of rubble stone and courses of squared and dressed chalk, with brick dressings, chalk quoins, and cement render to the 19th-century front. It has hipped stone tiled roofs to the northeast, southeast, and southwest fronts, with two gabled ends to the northwest front, creating a valley between them. Brick stacks are visible.

The southeast front is two stories with five bays, featuring six-pane and three-pane sash windows on the upper floor and six-pane sashes on the ground floor. A centrally placed pseudo-Tuscan Doric porch supports a six-panel door flanked by side panels and a semi-circular fanlight in the Bloomsbury style. The original principal front is on the southwest side, displaying a coved cornice and two six-pane sashes to the upper floor, and a three-light six-pane casement with two-light upper panes on the ground floor.

A one-story and attic, four-bay range, built of squared and dressed chalk with brick dressings, adjoins the northeast side. It has a gabled machine tiled roof and a polygonal bay on its southeast front, where it joins the main block.

Inside, the Regency addition provides a staircase hall and, on either side, a dining room, a drawing room, and bedrooms above. The cantilevered staircase has an elm rail, plain squared banisters, and carved tread ends. Doors throughout the Regency addition have reeded surrounds with stopped roundels, echoing the porch detail, and fanlights mirroring the front door fanlight illuminate the passages connecting the Regency addition to the older block on the ground floor and the landing. The rooms in the Regency addition are panelled to dado level around the windows, and candle holders project from the landing window's architrave. The cohesive decorative scheme appears to be derived from pattern books. A surviving Regency chimneypiece is found in the southeast bedroom, while a 17th-century chimneypiece is located in the southwest bedroom of the original section.