Dugdale'S House

Dugdale's House is a house from the earlier 18th century, constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and a stone slate roof featuring coped gables and end stacks. The building has two storeys and an attic, with a five-window range. It includes one hipped dormer with leaded casements and twelve-pane sash windows set in ashlar raised moulded surrounds. The lower windows are adorned with panelled friezes, moulded cornices, and brick voussoirs above. The central entrance features a six-panel door in a fine ashlar surround, which is bolection-moulded and has an ornamented pulvinated frieze topped by a large open segmental pediment on consoles. The pediment has a panelled soffit and a central urn. The house has a rubble plinth, ashlar rusticated quoins, and a coved eaves cornice. The east end displays a two-window range of cambered-head twelve-pane sashes. The south-east rear wing retains its original one-window range, complete with a hipped dormer, a twelve-pane sash, and a door with a hood on brackets, flanked by single lights with dripstones. The house was extended to the south in a simpler style around 1900, with a hipped roof at the south-east angle and a return to the west. It is believed to date from 1738 and is marked on the 1773 Andrews and Drury map as being owned by Michael Smith Esquire.