The Old House

The Old House is a late 18th-century house built for Sir John Barlace Warren. It was restored in the late 20th century by the Landmark Trust. The structure is made of granite rubble with dressed granite quoin lintels and a string course. It features a slate roof with a lead roll ridge and granite-coped gable ends and parapets. The house has gable end stacks with short rebuilt granite shafts.

The exterior is two storeys high with a cellar and presents a symmetrical east front with a window arrangement of 1:2:1. The parapet, supported by granite corbels, extends across the central two bays, which are slightly recessed. The windows include small square six-pane sashes with granite lintels and cills, and tall twelve-pane sashes on the ground floor to the left and right. The central entrance consists of panelled double doors. All the doors and windows are 20th-century replacements. The rear elevation is similar but lacks the corbelled parapet at the centre, where the central doorway features a plank door.

The interior has been entirely rebuilt in the late 20th century, but it includes reused plain marble chimneypieces in the front left-hand ground floor room. Notably, there are drawings from 1775 by the architect William Newton for a villa on Lundy for Sir John Barlace Warren.