The Prospect

The Prospect is a large house built around the 1830s, with later additions from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of limestone ashlar and features a low-pitched slate hipped roof with lead-roll hips and ridge, along with deep eaves. The house has ashlar axial and lateral stacks with cornices.

The original structure is roughly square in plan, with its main rooms facing the southeast garden front and the main entrance located on the southwest side. In the late 19th century, a large wing was added to the rear (northwest), followed by another wing on the northeast side in the 20th century.

The exterior of the house is two storeys high, with a symmetrical southeast garden front that has a layout of 1:3:1 bays, featuring a central bowed section. The ground floor includes a wooden verandah that is also bowed at the centre, supported by columns with shafts and spiral trails, topped with a lead-clad tented canopy. Tall French casements are present on the ground floor, while the first floor has 12-pane sash windows set in eared moulded architraves with apron panels. A moulded stringcourse runs around the entire building at first floor level.

On the southwest side, the original house has three bays, with the centre section projecting forward. It features panelled double doors on the ground floor, along with a later 19th-century porch supported by two pairs of panelled columns with composite capitals and an entablature. Flanking plate-glass sashes have panelled architraves, consoles, and cornices, while the first floor has 12-pane sashes in moulded eared architraves with apron panels. The later 19th-century extension on the left has a layout of 3:1:1 bays, with a canted two-storey bay on the left and a tripartite window on the right.

There is an outbuilding wing to the northwest, which includes a taller pavilion at the end topped with a pyramidal roof and a weather-vane. A rendered 20th-century wing is located on the northeast side. The interior has not been inspected.