Kitebrook House

Kitebrook House is a house that has been converted into a school, dating from around 1820, likely incorporating elements of an earlier building, with later 19th-century additions and alterations. It is constructed of limestone ashlar and features chamfered alternating angle quoins. The roof is low-pitched and hipped, covered with slate and has a stone cornice with dentils.

The house is two storeys high and has a wide band at the first-floor cill. The south front consists of 10 bays, featuring horned glazing bar sash windows, including three on each floor in full-height canted bays at the far right and in the second bay from the left, which has four windows on the ground floor. Alternating with these are four contemporary French casements located under a loggia between the canted bays. This loggia is made of wood, has a glazed roof, and is adorned with a moulded entablature and ball finials, supported by eight open-work Doric columns and antae.

The building has scattered ridge and end stacks with dentilled capping, mostly on the right side. To the right, there is a low range with a round-headed window on its rusticated front, which has a later 19th-century conservatory attached. On the left side, there are service ranges that may be slightly later than the main block, constructed of regularly coursed limestone rubble and also featuring a low-pitched hipped slate roof. The left side has a tripartite sash window on the first floor, with another in a flat-roofed projection below it. The central section has three glazing bar sashes on each floor, and the plain first-floor cill band continues to a slight projection on the right, which has tripartite sash windows on each floor.

At the rear of the main range, there is a square projection with a blind Doric portico, which has a central half-glazed door under a segmental pediment and fixed-light windows with triangular pediments, accessed by a straight flight of eight steps. Various 19th-century ranges are attached to the rear of the service range.

Inside, the ground floor features raised and carved 19th-century fireplace surrounds throughout. There is an open-well staircase with heavy turned balusters. It is said that there are more panelled rooms on the first floor. The conservatory, which now contains an inserted swimming pool, has 19th-century cast-iron roof trusses.