Doublebois House

Doublebois House is a house built between 1883 and 1885, with an extension added in 1896 for the Herman family. The extension features a datestone with intertwined initials C M H and the date 1896. The building is constructed of rock-faced snecked slatestone with freestone dressings, including a moulded plinth, freestone quoins, and parapet copings. It has a slate roof with gabled ends and nine rubblestone stacks that have freestone dressings and moulded caps.

The house has a quadrangular plan with a small central court and was extended to the south with a gabled rear wing that was originally a chapel. It is designed in the High Victorian Gothic style and consists of two storeys, an attic, and a basement. The nearly symmetrical north entrance front features a 2:1:1 window arrangement. There is a central two-storey gabled porch with corbelled kneelers, gablets, and corner buttresses. The doorway has a moulded two-centred arch with Corinthian capitals, and above it is a three-light stone mullion and transom window. A small lancet window is located in the gable.

On the ground floor, to the left and right, there are large stone mullion and transom windows with cusped head lights and transoms. The first floor has one single-light and two two-light stone mullion windows with transoms. The west front features similar window types arranged in a 1:3:2 bay configuration, with flanking gabled bays. The left gable has a crenellated stone first-floor oriel supported by a buttress shaft and flanked by lancets. The central three-window recess includes a stone balcony with a balustrade adorned with shields, and the windows have cusped head lights with a two-light window above. The right-hand gable has a similar five-light ground floor window, with the centre being blind and two-light windows above.

To the right of the west front, there is a wing set back that includes a single-storey 20th-century conservatory in the angle. Much of the interior plasterwork has been removed, and several floors and ceilings are rotten, although some panelling remains. Only two rooms of the interior have been inspected, but it is believed that the house contained a fine music room and chapel, as well as much stained glass. This building is a late example of the High Victorian Gothic style and was the seat of Rev. George Edward Hermon in 1910, as noted in Kelly's Directory of that year.