The Gables And Attached Outbuilding And Barn

This is a house dating from the late medieval period, with significant additions and alterations made in the early 18th century, the mid-19th century, and later. The left wing of the house is from the late medieval period, while the remainder of the structure is primarily 17th century, with further modifications in the 19th century. The walls are a timber frame construction, rendered over limestone rubble. The roof is gabled, covered with stone slate, and features two ridge stacks built of stone with brick flues set diagonally and having oversailing courses. There are also similar brick stacks to the outer rear gables. The house is arranged as a two-storey, two-unit hall, with flanking service and parlour wings. It has a seven-window front and gabled fronts to the outer wings, with two gabled bays in the centre. A central stone porch leads to an inner studded door from the 17th century, featuring iron fittings set within moulded wood architraves decorated with shields in the spandrels. A late 19th-century hood protects an 18th-century plank door set in a beaded architrave on the left side. The windows are a mix of six-pane sashes and 20th-century casements. A rear outshut from the 17th century, constructed of limestone rubble and covered with a Welsh slate roof, includes a 17th-century five-light wood-mullioned and transomed window. Inside, the house retains stop-chamfered and chamfered beams throughout, with jowled posts and wall plates on the first floor. The fireplaces have been remodelled, and there's an 18th-century staircase, updated in the mid-19th century, to the right. A late 16th-century studded door with iron fittings sits within a moulded architrave in the rear outshut. A stone staircase winds down to a cellar under a fine early 17th-century open-well staircase with pierced splat balusters, turned finials, and a moulded handrail. The first floor boasts an early 18th-century bolection-moulded fireplace, a similar fireplace with early 18th-century panelled partition walls, and a 17th-century fireplace to the left, featuring a chamfered bressumer and stone jambs. The roof has collar trusses with butt purlins; a probable medieval truss is embedded in the front gable wall of the left wing's steeper-pitched roof. The house was likely restored around 1838 for James Swan. Associated with the house are an 18th-century outbuilding and a three-bay barn to the left, built from limestone rubble with stone slate roofs.