Langford House And Attached Conservatory

Langford House is a small country house, dating back to the 17th century with significant alterations and extensions in about 1820, around 1830, and 1876 (as indicated by rainwater heads). The house is constructed of uncoursed and roughly coursed limestone rubble and ashlar, with ashlar dressings, and has slate roofs with coped verges, a moulded eaves cornice, and a parapet, embattled to the parts built around 1820. The overall design is a T-plan, incorporating the original twin-gabled 17th-century core at the junction of the two arms; the 19th-century work is in a Domestic Tudor style.

The south-west side of the 17th-century section features three 19th-century casements with dripstones to the ground floor and one on the first floor to the right gable. A prominent oriel window with five round-headed lights and an embattled parapet, likely dating from around 1820, is set into the left gable. Segmental-headed windows with Gothic Y-tracery and dripstones are found in the attic of each gable. A tall 6-light mullioned and transomed window, probably from 1876, illuminates the staircase.

A two-bay service range, constructed around 1830 and under a different roof pitch, projects to the left and has 3-light mullioned and transomed windows with segmental heads and dripstones on the ground floor, similar 2-light mullion windows to the first floor, and single segmental-headed windows to gabled half dormers. The range contains external end stacks, one with a moulded capping and the other with two diagonal shafts, a dripstone, and capping.

The parallel twin-gabled range, built around 1820, projects to the right of the 17th-century part and features similar windows, including a full-height canted bay projection at the southern end of the south-west side. A single-storey, flat-roofed projection with an embattled parapet, situated in the angle and continuing round to the north, has similar windows, two to the left of a projecting rectangular porch, which is blind and painted in imitation. The porch features a moulded 4-centred outer arch with hollow spandrels and a label, and a diagonally boarded door. Corbelled external end stacks to each gable have two diagonal shafts, capping, and dripstones.

The south side of this range has three glazing bar sashes in ashlar surrounds to the first floor, a projecting bow with an embattled parapet to the ground floor of the right gable, and a contemporary conservatory with intersecting cast-iron Gothic tracery to the left. Another range dating from 1876, set back to the right, has twin gables to the left and a gabled range set back at right angles to the north-east. Ball finials adorn the gables and corners. A parallel service range (also from 1876) completes the T-plan at the rear.

The interior was not inspected during a resurvey in May 1987, but is likely to be of interest.