Melody House

Melody House is a vicarage, now a private house, built around 1848 for the Reverend William Haslem. It may have been designed by him or with assistance from William White, who designed the nearby church. The building features Killas rubble walls with shallow rubble arches over the openings and slate hanging on the southwest side. It has scantle slate roofs with brick chimneys at the gable ends, including an external breast chimney on the right and a lateral shaft on the left side wall, with a hip over the front projection of the cross wing.

The house has an irregular L-shaped plan with two unequal reception rooms flanking a passage that leads to a stair behind the left-hand room, with an integral kitchen beyond and a lean-to at the kitchen's gable end. It stands two storeys high and has an irregular three-window front facing southeast. The left side features a hipped, shallow projecting wing with a wider ground floor window that has a three-light casement and a two-light casement above. The right part, set back, has a doorway on the far left with a 20th-century top-glazed door and a window above. The wider ground floor window on the right has a two-light transomed window with marginal panes. Most of the windows are original one-, two-, or three-light casements with small panes, although some 20th-century windows are present at the rear.

A 19th-century engraving by Butterworth and Heath depicts a conservatory or verandah with a three-bay arcade, flush with the right front wing. The interior remains largely unaltered, featuring an original narrow open-well staircase with a mahogany handrail that is wreathed over the newel with a curtail step. The reception rooms have moulded ceiling cornices, and the stair ceiling also features a moulded band. Original doors and architraves are still in place.