Estcourt House And Attached Area Wall

Estcourt House and an attached area wall date from around 1720. The house is built of pennant ashlar and rubble, with limestone and stucco dressings, a slate roof, and rendered brick stacks. It follows an L-shaped plan, and has a single depth. The two-storey, five-window façade is arranged over two attached blocks. The right-hand block features alternating thick and thin ashlar courses on a rubble plinth, with stucco quoin strips, and a moulded parapet coping. It has a doorcase with a battered architrave, ears, a flat hood, and a six-panel door with the top two panels glazed and the middle two fielded. The windows are flush, four-pane sashes with pronounced keys. The left-hand block is of squared coursed rubble on the ground floor, rubble and brick on the first floor, and contains an elliptical-arched coach entrance to the right of a round-arched doorway; both have plain keyed surrounds. The first floor windows are six-pane sashes. The interior has a hall with a segmental-arched niche to the left, a rear lateral stair flight with winders at the top and bottom, and a shell-head niche with a cherub to the left at the back. A first-floor room contains a moulded acanthus cornice and a three-light bow window with four-panel shutters. The property includes a raised, flagged walled front area to No.70, with side and front gates, and tooled flags to No.70A.