Talaton House

Talaton House is a house built in the early 19th century, with possible origins dating back to the late 17th or early 18th century. It features a plastered brick exterior, brick stacks and chimney shafts, and a slate roof. The house is set in its own grounds and faces open countryside to the south, while backing onto the village. It has an L-shaped plan, with the front block containing principal rooms on either side of a central entrance hall and rear stair. The right room has a rear lateral stack, and the left room has a gable-end stack. The layout of the rest of the house is unclear due to limited inspection, but the front block may be double depth, with a kitchen block projecting to the rear.

The exterior is symmetrical, featuring a three-window front arranged around a central doorway. The part-glazed door is likely a replacement, but the flat-roofed Tuscan porch in front is early 19th century, as are the windows, which are all 12-pane sashes, with the ground floor windows in the center being part of tripartite sash windows. The eaves are plain, and the roof is gable-ended. The interior was not available for inspection, but early 19th-century and possibly late 17th to early 18th-century carpentry, joinery, and other details are suspected. Although the building is shielded from the village by trees, the large house and its grounds are an important part of the village's character.