Fordton House

Fordton House is a large house built in the late 18th century. It features a stucco exterior on brick or rubble, with plastered brick chimney shafts and a slate roof. The house has a two-room double depth layout with a central staircase and two axial stacks located in solid walls between the front and rear rooms. It faces north and is two storeys high.

The symmetrical front has five windows and a central door, flanked by panelled pilasters at each corner. There is a moulded eaves cornice and a parapet above, which includes a dentil cornice and a low pitch pediment over the central three bays, also adorned with a dentil cornice. The cornice breaks forward at the foot of the pediment, suggesting that pilasters may have once existed between the windows below. The door is a glazed 20th-century addition, but it retains the original round-headed fanlight and wooden doorcase, which features fluted pilasters and an open pediment above the fanlight.

The ground floor windows are full-height hornless sashes with six panes above nine, while the first floor has twelve-pane sashes. The east front has three windows and is similar in style, with flanking pilasters, a parapet, and a pediment, featuring fifteen and twelve-pane sashes. The rear has a four-window front with twelve-pane sashes and a door with panelled reveals. Inside, there is some original joinery and plasterwork, including a geometric staircase with an open string, shaped brackets, stick balusters, a mahogany handrail, a curtail step, and wreathed scrolls.