Sheepstead House, Brewers And Morland

Sheepstead House, now divided into three dwellings, was originally built in the early 18th century and remodelled and extended around 1819 for the Morland family. The house is constructed of uncoursed and coursed limestone rubble with Welsh slate roofs and brick stacks. It has a double-depth plan with projecting wings to the rear and was remodelled in the Regency style. The front elevation has a four-window range and incorporates an early 18th-century house behind the right-hand side. A stone porch with Tuscan columns and an entablature has been added to the left of centre, featuring a six-panelled door flanked by glazed lights. Above the porch are French windows that open onto a balcony with a wrought-iron balustrade, both set beneath flat stone arches. The windows are early 19th-century six-pane sashes, also with flat stone arches above. The property has an early 19th-century parapet and hipped roofs; the roof to the right is earlier, steeper-pitched, and taller. The left-hand side wall has flat stone arches over early 19th-century sashes and two French windows. A similar porch with six- and eight-pane sashes is located on the right-hand side wall. The interior of the left-hand section, known as Sheepstead House, includes an early 19th-century interior with panelled doors and marble fireplaces, one of which, in the rear left room, has the Morland rebus. It also features a staircase with a wrought-iron balustrade. The right-hand section, formerly used as Brewers, contains an early 18th-century dog-leg staircase with barley-sugar balusters on a closed string and an early 18th-century stone bolection-moulded fireplace on the first floor.