Vale House

Vale House is a small country house built in the early 19th century. It features stuccoed walls with a flat surface texture that was grouted in the 20th century. The roof is a low-pitched hipped design made of dry Delabole slate, with moulded soffits beneath the projecting eaves. The house has stuccoed axial chimneys with cornices over the cross walls.

The layout includes three reception rooms on the garden front, with a projecting central room. There is an axial entrance passage or hall behind the right-hand room that leads to a central stair located behind the middle room, and a service wing behind the left-hand room. The house is designed in a classical style and has two storeys. It features a plinth, rusticated quoin strips, and a band cornice.

The original windows are 12-pane hornless sashes with crown glass. The symmetrical south garden front has a 1:1:1 bay arrangement with a central bay that is topped by a moulded pediment that projects forward. The ground floor has a tripartite sash window that projects slightly, flanked by plain pilasters and topped with an entablature featuring a moulded cornice.

The east entrance front has a regular two-window arrangement, with a doorway positioned towards the right. This doorway contains a four-panel door, which has been later fitted with a top-glazed overlight and a stucco architrave. This entrance is framed by a distyle stucco Tuscan porch with inner pilaster antae.

While the interior was not inspected, the high quality and well-preserved nature of the exterior suggest that there may be good carpentry, joinery, and plasterwork inside. Vale House is a well-proportioned early 19th-century house set in sloping planted grounds that overlook the Kennal Valley.