The Old House

The Old House is a house dating back to the 17th century, with alterations and additions from the mid-19th century. The front of the building is constructed from coursed squared stone, with rubble stone on the rear, and features plain tile roofs to the main elevations and Welsh slate elsewhere. The house has a roughly L-shaped plan, consisting of a 17th-century range built along an east-west axis, a 2-storey rear outshut, a 19th-century entrance range added to the rear right, and further 19th-century additions extending to the west.

The east (entrance) front has three bays, the two left bays being narrower and capped with gables. A central 6-panel door with an overlight sits within a deep porch with cusped fluting to the columns, a panelled frieze, a cornice, and a blocking course. Double-chamfered, mullioned, and transomed windows with margin glazing bars and hoodmoulds are present, with three lights flanking the door on the ground and first floors, a two-light window over the door, and a single light centrally to the gable. The roof is steeply pitched, with shouldered and corniced end stacks.

The south (garden) front exhibits a projecting right-hand block with a plinth and quoins. A 20th-century board door sits centrally within a cusped-panelled architrave under a corbelled pediment displaying a Sun Insurance plaque. Three-light windows flank the door on each floor. Original 17th-century features include ablocked, quoined doorway with a shallow segmental-arched monolithic lintel and a double-chamfered window with a hoodmould above. 19th-century additions step down on the left; small-pane windows are present, the right-hand additions being transomed and the left-hand additions featuring segmental arches, flanking a central door.

The north front features a strap-hinged board door with an overlight on the right side of the outshut. The outshut is characterised by double-chamfered windows with ribbed mullions of two and three lights to the ground floor, and two lights above. A 20th-century dormer is visible on the east-west range, while the north-south range has a two-light window with a hoodmould to both the ground and attic floors (the ground floor window is blocked).

Inside the 17th-century range, the left-hand ground-floor room appears to contain re-used features, including panelled wainscot, and a panelled door to the left of the fireplace. The fireplace has a roll-moulded, shallow-Tudor-arched stone surround, a deep frieze with griffins flanking a shield, and a modillion cornice with an acanthus-leaf motif. A compartmented ceiling with moulded beams also stands as a feature. In the attic, there is a collared principal rafter roof with two sets of trenched purlins, the morticed collar at the left end of which is probably re-used.