Butts Park And Slate Garden Wall And Gate Piers To West

Butts Park is a house and garden wall dating from the late 18th century, with extensions from the early, mid, and late 19th century. The building is constructed from rendered and painted local stone rubble and cob, topped with rag slate roofs that feature gabled and hipped ends. The axial and end stacks are made of rendered brick.

The layout is complex due to the various extensions, and the original internal arrangement is uncertain since the interior was not accessible. The central southern range likely includes the original late 18th-century house, which has a two-room plan with a through passage and is heated by end stacks. An early 19th-century cross wing was added to the west, creating an 'L' shaped plan, with the southwestern room sharing the earlier end stack and the northern room heated by its own end stack. A wing may have also been added to the rear of the eastern room during the early 19th century, contributing to an overall 'U' shaped plan. A mid-19th-century outshot was added across the rear between the two later wings, and a late 19th-century extension with a one-room plan was added to the right gable end of the earlier range, also heated by an end stack.

The exterior is two stories high, featuring a regular arrangement of windows on the south front, with a central glazed 19th-century porch, a sash window to the left, and a four-pane sash to the right. There is a late 19th-century canted bay window on the far right, and the first floor has a late 19th-century four-pane sash, three 19th-century two-light casements, and another late 19th-century four-pane sash to the right. The west front has a regular three-window arrangement with 19th-century two-light casements.

The garden wall to the west of the house is made of large vertical slate slabs, featuring granite corner posts and granite gate piers that are square in plan.