Overtown House

Overtown House is a stone-built house with a complex construction history, dating back to around 1700, with substantial additions in the early to mid-19th century and around 1800. It has hipped roofs covered in stone tiles and is set within a pleasing landscape.

The west front, dating to circa 1800, is constructed of rubble stone with ashlar quoins, featuring two hipped dormers. It has a chamfered string course above the ground floor, with five windows: the left-hand bay containing three lights, the others two-light designs, all mullioned. A central doorway is topped with a scalloped hood and features an exceptionally fine, polished hardwood 21-panel door, comparable to examples at Burderop Park. Projecting brick and stone-tiled wings, constructed in the mid-19th century, flank the west front, each featuring an excellent multi-panel central door, flanked by tripartite windows, and Venetian windows in the gable ends; the left-hand wing is blind. A brick boundary wall to the front incorporates a moulded coping and imported pineapple finials to the gate piers. An early 19th-century pavilion was added to the west front, with subsequent 20th-century alterations.

The south front links the east and west parts of the house and retains several circa 1700 mullion windows, mostly with ovolo profiles. A carriage sweep is defined by two pairs of circa 18th-century style rusticated ashlar piers, topped with moulded capping and ball finials.

The interior includes two staircases: one is late 17th century, and is characterised by heavy balusters on both sides and flat baluster gates at the base. Three door surrounds in the east part of the house have enriched stop chamfers. One ground floor room to the south has restored 17th-century panelling, while a north room in the west part of the house is notable for a mid-19th-century Gothic marble fireplace.