Sheldon House

Sheldon House is a house dating from around 1656, which was refronted and altered in the late 18th to early 19th century. It is constructed of limestone ashlar and rubble, featuring a left-hand and rear valley stack, and has a stone slate roof. The building has a two-room plan with right-hand and rear parallel ranges, and it stands two storeys high with a cellar and attic. The front has three windows and is symmetrical, with pilasters, a cornice, and a parapet that has a raised central section. The gables are coped, with the right-hand gable topped by a ball finial.

The central doorway is adorned with a bracketed pediment and an architrave surrounding a six-panel door, with the top two panels being glazed. The windows have plain ashlar surrounds with angle beads, featuring paired outer windows and a single central window, all fitted with late 19th-century plate-glass sashes that include margin panes. There are three gabled dormers, each with eight panes. The right-hand gable has a blocked ground-floor window and a blocked three-light 17th-century attic window with a chamfered surround and label mould. A lead downpipe with an original hopper is located at the front.

The side wall is slightly set in, featuring a wide rear doorway with a six-panel door and a ground-floor sash window with ten panes. The rear was extended in the early 20th century. Inside, the house has a flagged central hall, and the front rooms contain moulded lateral beams. There is an early 18th-century dogleg stair at the rear with column-on-vase balusters and a ramped rail. The front left-hand room features early 18th-century panelling, a fireplace with an overmantel, and a notable rear shell-head niche in a blocked window. The right-hand room showcases an impressive example of early faux panelling wallpaper.

On the first floor, the left-hand room includes a 17th-century scratch-moulded cupboard set in a blocked rear window, along with chamfered ceiling beams. The roof structure is varied, lacking a ridge in the right-hand section and featuring a threaded ridge in the centre, with one visible arch brace in the wall. There are early 19th-century stone fireplaces with hob grates.