Little Garratts

Little Garratts is a house dating from the 18th century and mid-19th century, with alterations made in the mid to late 19th century and late 20th century. The building features painted brick and tile-hanging with bands of fishscale tiles, topped with plain tile and Welsh slate roofs. It has an L-shaped plan, consisting of a two-storey, three-bay front range from the mid-19th century, an earlier wing to the rear left, and a parallel mid-19th century range to the rear right.

The entrance elevation is symmetrical, with a side outshut on the right. The central entrance is a Tudor-arched half-glazed door set in a gabled architrave, flanked by lancet-shaped side recesses. This is fronted by a formerly open (now glazed) gabled porch, which features fishscale tiles on the gable, cusped barge boards, and a plain tile roof. The windows are cross windows in reveals with projecting sills, and those on the first floor rise through the eaves under gables that are treated as porch gables, complete with spade-shaped finials. The door and windows have honeycomb-patterned glazing bars, and there is an inserted narrow leaded window to the ground floor right. The building has ramped parapets at either end with stone coping and a Welsh slate roof, with two stacks at the rear.

The side outshut includes a late 20th-century PVC window, with a small four-pane window to its left. The rear of the house features one first-floor window matching the front. The wing has a side outshut with a late 20th-century door and stack, along with a mid to late 19th-century pointed-arched window surround with a hoodmould (now containing a 20th-century window).

On the left return, the front range has a segmental-arched window on each floor and a similar blind opening on each floor to the left where it links to the wing. The wing was altered in the mid to late 19th century when it was converted to a gymnasium, and further changes were made in the late 20th century. It now features a gabled porch with a 20th-century door, a 20th-century PVC window on either side, a continuous 19th-century mullioned window below the eaves, one 20th-century dormer, and a skylight, all under a plain tile roof that is hipped at the left end. The interior has not been inspected, but the front range is noted to have a central straight-flight stair with stick balusters, while the wing reportedly contains original rafters and a wall plate.