Longham House

Longham House is a house, now divided into two dwellings, dating from the 18th century, with extensions and alterations made in the early and mid-19th centuries and minor additions around 1900. The walls are constructed of brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with blue headers, and are colourwashed. It has a plinth, cambered arches over openings, a first-floor band and stone cills. The roof is slate, gabled and hipped, with small hipped dormers and one flat-roofed dormer at a high level at the rear.

The building has an L-shaped layout, with an early 19th-century block filling the angle at the rear, together with a staircase wing in the angle and mid-19th-century extensions and a c.1900 'dairy' unit. The south front is symmetrical, with a projecting centrepiece (possibly replacing a pediment) of two storeys, arranged as a 3:1:3 window arrangement. The ground-floor sash windows extend to floor level, and the upper Victorian sashes have raised cills. A wooden Doric doorcase, with an open pediment, plain columns, arched opening with panelled reveals, and a fan light, provides access to a six-panelled door. A verandah that previously ran across the front has been removed, but its terrace remains, with a moulded stone kerb. A lower mid-19th-century wing of 1 1/2 storeys is located on the west side of the front.

The rear wings consist of an original two-storey and attic section with similar features and two Gothic windows attached to the east side of the main block, the north end of whose roof is hipped. Beyond this is an early 19th-century wing that is slightly wider and taller, and a screen wall of brickwork with ogee openings, which have now been filled. Internally, the staircase has mahogany handrails and decorative cast-iron slender balusters.