Prixford House

Prixford House is a house that was remodeled in the 19th century, originally built in the 18th century, with an early range at the rear. The main block features a brick side wall and a rendered front, which includes a plinth, rusticated quoins, a floating plat, a moulded cornice, and an ogee gutter, all painted with masonry paint. The house is 2½ storeys high, topped with a slate roof that has lead rolls and hipped ends, with tail end stacks that are now cemented over.

The structure has three bays and is symmetrical with single depth. At the rear, there are two parallel gable-ended wings; one is the early range, while the other is integrated with the front and further extended at the back. The ground floor has timber canted bays that feature a moulded cornice on brackets and lead roofs. The windows are timber sashes with two panes per sash and plated without glazing bars on the sides.

The entrance has a two-panel half-glazed door, which is not original, framed by a shouldered architrave and topped with a moulded stone canopy supported by curved brackets. Above the door is an oversized timber sash with four panes, flanked by tripartite timber sashes with glazing bars in the center lights and two panes per sash. There are dormers with slated cheeks and hips that contain timber casements, each with four panes.

A short attached courtyard wall features a boarded door and frame with a slated top, leading to a two-storey facade that has four windows, increasing in size to the right. This includes three timber sashes with six panes each and an eight-pane timber sash to the right, above two timber boarded entrance doors. There is also a two-light, six-pane timber casement to the right of the right-hand door.

Inside, the right-hand room in the main block has large square paneling with rolled corners and a simple plastered ceiling featuring circle-moulding around a foliated centerpiece. Much of the internal joinery remains intact, including the chimney pieces upstairs. The house has an 18th-century dog-leg staircase with twisted balusters, square newels, and a moulded string and rail. The large roof principles are exposed in the earlier wing.