Bear House

This is a house, dating from around 1730 to 1740, which incorporates elements of an earlier 17th-century building. The front is faced with vitrified bricks in a Flemish bond pattern, accented with red brick detailing. The rear wall is of English bond brickwork over a 17th-century ground floor wall constructed of coursed limestone rubble. The roof is covered in old tiles, with a mid-18th century brick stack on the left and a brick chimney built onto an earlier 17th-century limestone rubble stack on the right.

The house has a two-unit plan and displays a mid-Georgian architectural style, with two storeys and an attic, and originally four windows across the front. A central door is set within a gauged segmental brick arch with red brick jambs and features six panels of glazed glass and an overlight. Similar arches are present above the 20th-century two-light casement windows, which replaced original sash windows. On the right side, the arches are narrower, corresponding to a blocked first-floor window and the location of a 20th-century ground floor window. Raised brick bands at the storey level and eaves, along with brick quoins and window/door dressings, create contrast with the purple-tinged brick walls. Two gabled dormers are topped with 20th-century casement windows. The gabled roof has gable end stacks; the right-hand stack is part of the original 17th-century house and aligned with the roof ridge.

A mid-18th century three-storey stair turret is located centrally on the rear elevation, built of Flemish bond brick with flared headers. It has segmental arches above blocked and current windows, and a 18th-century plank door. The interior features 18th-century four-panelled doors in moulded architraves, along with some early 19th-century plank doors. A room on the right side contains a full set of chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, a chamfered bressumer over an open fireplace with a bread oven, and mid-18th century newel stairs to the rear. The roof is a 4-bay common-rafter structure with butt purlins.

Attached to the right gable is a mid-18th century, one-and-a-half storey block of limestone rubble with a gabled tile roof and a gabled dormer. Attached to the left gable of the main house is a mid-18th century L-shaped, single-storey block of limestone rubble with a gabled tile roof, mid-18th century brick on the right wall, and brickwork to the rear wall, which is flush with the rear projection housing the stairs. The right corner of the front is attached to a limestone rubble wall and a Flemish stretcher bond brick wall with railings runs across the front.