Abbotstone House

Abbotstone House is a detached house dating to the late 16th century, with significant additions and alterations in 1627, 1718, the late 18th century, and the 19th century. The house is constructed of English bond brick with a tiled roof and brick stacks. It is arranged in a T-plan, consisting of a hall with a cross wing. The front of the house is two storeys high with a five-window facade. A round-arched doorway replacing an earlier entrance is located to the right of the former hall range. To the left are two cross windows, while the cross wing to the right features a 2-light chamfered mullioned window and a 2-light 19th-century mullioned and transomed window. The first floor of the hall range has a three-brick plat band and a 2-light casement, along with a blind window with wavy voussoirs and a 19th-century oriel. The cross wing has a bullnose brick string course to both the first and attic floors, and a 3-light mullioned and transomed window, above which sits a datestone indicating rebuilding. A 2-light ovolo-mullioned window with a datestone marks the rebuilding of the cross wing. Attached to the left is a late 18th-century range with casements. A large external stack to the left of the hall range is part of the 1718 rebuilding of the hall. The right return elevation features an external stack, a 19th-century ovolo-mullioned window and a casement to the ground floor, along with bullnose string courses and ovolo-mullioned windows to the first and attic floors. The rear of the house includes a two-storey late 19th-century services wing to the left, a gabled stair turret with a 2-light casement to the center, and 3-light and 2-light wooden or cast-iron casements to the right.

The interior features open fireplaces with chamfered bressummers, planked doors, 4-panelled 19th-century doors, and a winding staircase with an octagonal newel. Bedrooms on the first floor of the cross wing contain reset 17th-century panelling and exposed timbers indicative of a pre-1627 timber-framed house. A 162? datestone refers to the rebuilding of a timber-framed house in brick by William Stockman of Barford Park, the original building of which has been demolished. The brickwork is of high quality.