Glenfield

Glenfield is a detached house, now functioning as a rest home, built around 1840. It features a limestone ashlar exterior and a slate roof with a dormer and moulded stacks that have paired and triple octagonal shafts at the ridge and returns. The house is designed in the Tudor Gothic style and has a double-depth plan.

The building is two storeys high with an attic and has an asymmetrical front with three windows. The casement windows are adorned with label moulds. The forward-facing gables on either side of the central entrance range have moulded coped parapets. The left gable features a pierced stone cross finial, while the right gable has an octagonal finial and a pendant that resembles the shafts of the stacks. Both gables include small-paned two-light attic windows and stone mullioned and transomed first-floor windows, with two-light windows on the left and center, and a three-light window on the right.

On the ground floor, there is a similar three-light window to the left, and to the right, a canted bay with moulded coping on the plain parapet and a three-light two/two-pane sash window with horizontal glazing bars, which is fronted by a pierced stone balustrade. The central entrance bay has a two-light dormer above the eaves and a two-light first-floor window over a projecting shouldered gabled porch. This porch features moulded kneelers, moulded coping, and a circular finial above a chamfered four-centred arch, with open lancets on the returns. The left return includes a gabled conservatory.

This house is a notable example of early Victorian domestic architecture, reminiscent of the work of James Wilson, and it reflects the adaptation of a style that was previously used for institutional buildings. After serving as a nursing home, it was returned to residential use in 1998.