Ethelred House

Ethelred House is a house built around 1760, featuring an ashlar front and a stone-tiled mansard valley roof with coped gables and end wall stacks. The building has a basement and three storeys, with a formal south front that includes a high plinth, a band, a first-floor sill course, a modillion cornice, and a parapet. The upper windows are 9-pane and set within architraves, while the first-floor windows are 12-pane sashes also in architraves with cornices. The ground floor showcases Venetian windows with an 8-12-8-pane arrangement, flanking a slightly recessed Ionic pedimented doorcase supported by columns on pedestals. This doorcase leads up four steps to a fielded 6-pane door within an elliptical arched surround, complete with an intersecting glazing bar fanlight. There are two small basement windows.

On the west end return, there is a one-window range with a 6-pane attic window and 8-pane windows below. The east end wall features a first-floor 12-pane sash in a raised bead-moulded surround with a dripstone, as well as a 9-pane attic window in a similar surround. The rear of the house has a two-window range and a rear wing with an ashlar east front, including a 9-pane attic window, a 12-pane first floor, and two 18-pane ground floor windows. At the west end, there is a two-storey earlier rubble stone range with an eaves band, a 4-light upper mullion window with the outer lights blank, and a ground floor 2-light mullion window, originally a 3-light, under a relieving arch. To the left is a broad elliptical carriage arch in a raised rusticated surround. The rear has a 2-light window on each floor and a door in a moulded doorcase.

Inside, the ground floor east room features a modillion cornice, a panelled dado, and an original fireplace. There is a closed string stair to the rear with turned balusters and column newels.