Bellair

Bellair is an interesting small house dating from around 1700, representative of the Wren period. The entrance front is stuccoed and has been altered, featuring a newer doorway and a Tuscan porch. The house has sash windows with glazing bars and is two storeys high with a four to five-window arrangement. The garden front is made of red brick, with the centre breaking forward, and includes burnt headers in the brickwork and stucco quoins. It has a steep hipped slate roof with dormers that have segmental heads. The cornice and brackets are likely later additions, although a section of the original cornice remains on the north side. There is a two-storey red brick addition on the south side of the house, which may have originally been an orangery and was converted around 1800.

Inside, there is a good staircase featuring twisted balusters, a carved string, and panelled undersides to the treads and risers. The stairwell has curious plaster caps on the pilasters. On the first-floor landing, there are two devices of the Rhode family dated 1574 and 1641, believed to have been brought from the Rhode seat in the Midlands or to be copies of plasterwork from there. The round-headed staircase was destroyed by a blast and has been recently renewed, and there is contemporary panelling throughout.