Blackland Park

Blackland Park is a country house built in the late 18th century. It features ashlar stonework and a hipped slate valley roof with two square ashlar stacks. The house has three storeys and an attic, presenting a formal five-window range on both the north and south fronts. These fronts include a raised plinth, rusticated quoins, a moulded bracket cornice, and a parapet. The south front has windows with moulded architraves, including a 9-pane window on the second floor, a 12-pane window on the first floor, and a central 15-pane window on the ground floor. The entrance is framed by a similar architrave and a 19th-century Roman Doric porch with two columns, pilasters, a triglyph frieze, and a cornice.

The north front features a central bay that is projected and topped with a pediment, above which is a lunette over a Venetian window on the first floor. The ground floor has a 19th-century seven-bay projection with a pedimented Roman Doric centre, flanked by paired columns and piers that frame double doors in a moulded surround. There are three arched windows on each side with moulded imposts and keystones, and a Doric cornice without a frieze, along with panels below the windows. The side elevations are plain, with the west side featuring a 19th-century timber conservatory with a pointed curved roof. To the east, a coped red brick wall encloses single-storey outbuildings. The north side has a stone doorcase with a six-panel door.

Inside, there is a staircase with twisted wood balusters and moulded tread brackets, with the upper part rebuilt in the 20th century after a fire. The ground floor rooms have moulded cornices and some original fireplaces. The house is said to have been built in the late 18th century for the Maundrell family and was later owned by J. Merewether, Mr. Tanner, and around 1859 by Mr. Marshall Hall, who enlarged it.