The House Of Steps

The House of Steps is a detached house dating from the mid-18th century. It is constructed of Flemish bond brick with stone quoins and a rubble stone plinth, and has a stone slate roof with coped verges and gable end brick stacks. The house has two storeys and three windows. A central planked door is set within a cyma-moulded architrave with a flat stone hood supported by brackets, and leads up three semi-circular stone steps. The ground floor originally had two-light recessed chamfered mullioned casements to the cellar on either side, and the first floor has three-light cyma-mullioned casements, with a two-light mullioned casement above the door. A blocked opening on the left return once led to a bread oven. An early 20th-century extension is attached to the right return. The rear elevation includes French windows and a two-light casement to the first floor, along with a two-storey extension featuring a two-light casement.

The interior features an open fireplace with a renewed lintel on chamfered stone jambs, alongside winding stairs in the former kitchen. The parlour has a stone fireplace surround with beaded round corners, a cyma-moulded plaster ceiling cornice and roughly chamfered beams. A barrel-vaulted cellar runs the length of the house.