Waterhouse

Waterhouse is a country house, dating from the late 18th century, with extensions added in the 20th century. It is now used as a residential home for the elderly. The house is constructed of limestone ashlar, with a flat roof and ashlar stacks. The north-east front has three storeys and seven windows. The two left-hand bays slightly project, featuring two 12-pane sashes to the ground and first floors, three French windows, and one sash window on the right. The first floor has a total of seven sashes, all set within moulded architraves with cornices. The second floor contains a pivot-hung window to the left, four 6-pane sashes to the right, an eaves band, and a moulded cornice to the parapet. The rear elevation features French windows and one 8-pane sash to the centre, with a tripartite sash to each side. The first floor has 12-pane sashes, with moulded string courses dividing each floor. The second floor has six 6-pane sashes and a moulded cornice to the parapet. The right return has a half-glazed door and a three-light casement to the basement, three ground floor sashes, four first floor sashes, and 6-pane sashes to the second floor. The main entrance, formerly on the left return, is now obscured by a 1983 wing and is not considered particularly significant. The interior retains original joinery, including 6-panelled doors in moulded architraves, window shutters, cupboards with glazed doors, coloured marble fireplaces in the ground floor reception rooms, and a reset 18th-century staircase with three turned balusters per tread, a ramped and moulded handrail rising to the second floor. The house has been used as a residential home since 1947, founded by Rev Percy Warrington.