Strouds

Strouds is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from around the mid-17th century and significantly remodeled and extended in the 19th century. It features rendered stone rubble walls and a gable-ended slate roof, with brick stacks at each end and a rendered axial stack. The layout consists of a three-room-and-through-passage plan, with the lower end to the left heated by an end stack. The hall is heated by a stack at its higher end, and the inner room has a gable-end fireplace. A long dairy and outbuilding wing, likely from the 18th or early 19th century, was added behind the lower room. The house underwent a remodeling and refronting in the early 19th century, which included widening the passage and inserting a staircase.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical four-window front, featuring probably early 19th-century hornless sashes with 16 panes, except for the 12-pane windows to the left of centre on the first floor and to the right on both floors. There is a 20th-century plank and part-glazed door to the left of centre, and a lean-to against the left-hand end has a part-glazed door at the front. The long wing extends behind the left-hand end.

Inside, the entrance hall has an early 19th-century open string staircase with carved tread ends, a wreathed handrail, and stick balusters. There are 19th-century panelled doors. The room to the right of the entrance features an open fireplace with a herringbone pattern at the rear and a thinly chamfered wooden lintel with straight-cut stops. The inner room fireplace has dressed stone jambs and an ovolo-moulded wooden lintel with ogee stops. The roof trusses, probably replaced in the 19th century, are insubstantial straight principals.