The Old Estate House

The Old Estate House is a house dating from the mid-19th century, likely incorporating fabric from the 17th century. It is constructed of stone rubble, rendered on the front, with gable-ended asbestos-slate roofs and brick stacks. The building follows an L-shaped plan, with a two-unit central entrance front range. This front range features an integral end stack to the left-hand room, a likely lateral stack at the rear of the right-hand room, and a staircase in the central entrance hall. A wing extends from the rear of the left-hand room with an integral brick end stack. The house is two storeys high and has a façade that is not quite symmetrical with three bays, the windows being disposed to the right. The windows are 19th-century four-pane sashes. The central entrance features an early 19th-century six-panelled door, with beaded flush lower panels, moulded recessed middle panels, glazed upper panels, and a beaded pegged frame, sheltered by a probably 20th-century pent-roofed porch. Shaped barge boards embellish the left-hand gable end. Inside, the entrance hall has a 19th-century encaustic-tile floor and an early to mid-19th-century staircase with a closed string, stick balusters, and turned newel posts. Mid-19th-century four-panelled doors are also present. A left-hand ground-floor room has a tall open fireplace with stone jambs and a likely reused 17th-century chamfered wood lintel, with a scroll stop visible at the left-hand end (the right-hand end of the lintel is truncated). A plastered chamfered cross beam is found within the ground-floor rear room, now the kitchen. The first floor and roofspace were not inspected.