The Shooting Box

The Shooting Box is an early 19th century shooting box, later adapted as a house, with alterations in the early to mid-19th century and further changes in the 20th century. The older part of the building is constructed of cob, while the rest is brick, all rendered and painted, and has a Welsh slate roof. It is two storeys high, originally with three bays, later extended with a further three bays to form a wider facade.

The garden elevation displays three wider bays on the right, representing the original structure, and three left-hand bays which form a later service range. A single-storey, one-bay former wash kitchen and bake house is set back slightly on the left, and a 1930s lean-to garage is attached to the right. The central bay of the original facade has a part-glazed door, featuring nine-pane glazing over two panels, set within a wooden frame with square panels in the top corners and partially concealed by a 20th-century lean-to conservatory. Sixteen-pane sash windows are set within reveals with projecting sills. The three bays to the left have a mid to late 20th-century part-glazed door and fanlight with radial glazing bars; this previously a solitary ground-floor opening, now replaced by a mid to late 20th-century small-pane bow window. The first floor has two sixteen-pane sashes, and a relocated eight-pane sash in a formerly blank opening. The roof is continuous over both sections, hipped, with a late 20th-century skylight; a brick stack rises from the rear of the ridge on the right, one on the left of the older section has been removed, and a tall stack is at the left end. The wash kitchen has a mid-20th-century small-pane metal window, with a hipped roof.

The rear of the building has a door with six flush panels (the top two glazed) in a 20th-century swept, hipped-roofed porch to the right bay. There are twelve-pane sashes, with the exception of a 20th-century window inserted on the first floor between the right-hand windows. A small lean-to is located at the centre of the older part. The garage has a double boarded door with strap hinges.

The interior of the older part features a stone fireplace with pilasters and roundels to the top corners in the left-hand room, and a plain stone surround to the fireplace in the rear corridor. Later 19th-century fireplaces and grates are also present. Other features include panelled doors, shutters and cupboards. On the first floor, there is an elliptical archway between the front and rear rooms. The roof structure incorporates wood-pegged, collared, queen-strut roof trusses and staggered butt purlins.