Greyfriars

Greyfriars is a house dating from 1896, designed by C.A. Voysey for Julian Sturgis. It was subsequently extended to the west in 1913/14 by Herbert Baker. The house is built with whitewashed roughcast walls, smooth ashlar dressings, and a hipped slate roof with eaves that sweep outwards. There are multiple ridge stacks located to the left end, left of centre, right of centre, and right end. A tiled pentice drip-course runs along the ground floor, and deep boarded eaves are also present. The windows are stone-dressed and contain leaded casements.

The front elevation has an irregular roofline. A hipped 2-storey range is on the left with three windows on the first floor, and battering buttresses to the right. A steep gable is above a narrow bay, containing two first-floor windows, and below this is a large mullioned and transomed window. A taller, square tower is centrally positioned, featuring a roundel window above four irregularly placed first-floor windows, and a ground-floor entrance door. A gabled bay and wing extend to the right with a continuous strip of first-floor windows, and four windows below. A slight, chamfered projection extends from the right end. The main entrance is located to the right of centre and is recessed within a stone porch with a modillion hood.

The garden front features a large gable with slits in the apex, and three dormer windows buttressed to the right end. It has a variety of leaded casement windows, nine across the first floor and seven below. A two-storey square bay is on the left with a continuous window strip on both floors; a smaller square bay is on the right. A single-storey extension is attached to the left end. A return wall on the right end has an arched door providing access to a service court.

Inside, some original fittings remain, primarily locks and keys. Other features include board doors, wood and stone fireplace surrounds, and coved ceilings.