Avon House And Attached Walls, Piers And Railings

Avon House is a house with an attached former carriage house, dating to the 17th century, with substantial alterations in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The front range is dated 1798 on a hopper. The carriage house was refronted around 1830. The house is constructed of limestone ashlar with rubble sides and a stone slate roof. It has ashlar gable stacks.

The building is of a single-depth plan, featuring a rear wing dating to the mid-17th century. The main front has three storeys and an attic and a three-window range, with a two-storey, one-window range to the left. The symmetrical facade includes rusticated quoins, a raised frieze, cornice, and parapet, with coped gables. A doorway has fluted pilasters supporting a pediment, a fanlight, and a door with six raised panels. Horned plate-glass windows are set within raised surrounds, with smaller windows to the second floor. The former carriage house to the left has banded stonework to the ground floor, a string course, cornice, and parapet, a doorway, a 20th-century door, a canted bay with plate-glass sashes and an 8/12-pane sash window to the first floor. A cast-iron tented veranda with a central pedimented railing is also present.

The rear elevation shows the east wing in two sections, including two storeys and an attic with mullion windows, including transoms to the ground-floor. A shorter, gabled wing to the west has single three- and two-light mullion windows. A central 18th-century outshut contains a round-arched stair sash window with six-over-six panes. A western wing has sash windows, also with six-over-six panes, and a dormer with leaded casements. A dated hopper is inscribed “O/ISM” at the left-hand end of the facade.

Internally, the east wing features a stone kitchen fireplace to the cross-axial stack, while the front range has a central entrance stair hall with a dogleg winder stair with thin column-on-vase balusters, a curtail, dado panelling, and panelled doors. A collar truss roof with lapped joints is evident. Early 19th-century architraves are present at No.25A, which includes a segmental former carriage arch over the ground-floor bay.

Attached to the property are gate piers, ashlar dwarf walls with spear-headed railings (formerly with a lamp overthrow), and areas flagged with stone.