Essington House And Coach House Immediately To South West

Essington House is a house, reputedly originally a vicarage, dating from circa 1830-40, with a possible later 19th-century addition. The walls are mainly sandstone ashlar with stone rubble to the right-hand wing, and the roof is covered with slate, featuring coping stones to the gables. The house has several stone ashlar chimney stacks, some with circular shafts and one at the front which is castellated. The plan is roughly L-shaped, with the principal rooms located in the range to the left of the central entrance hall, facing the garden. Stairs are situated at the rear of the hall, with service rooms in the wing to the right. A further range of obviously inferior quality is situated beyond this wing, which may be a later service addition.

The house is built in the Tudor Gothic style, and is two and three storeys high. The garden front is symmetrical, with a three-window design and a central projecting gable. It features original three-light windows with square hoodmoulds; the ground floor windows have transoms, while the first floor windows are sash windows. The central gable has a carved stone shield above the first floor window and a dripcourse following the line of the gable. A chimney at the right-hand corner extends across the angle and is corbelled out from the wall. The entrance front has a porch with angle buttresses and a parapet, integral with the gable to the left. It includes a large four-centred arched doorway with original glazed doors and a two-light sash window above with arched heads. A recessed section to the right of the porch contains two and three-light windows. A large projecting gable, three stories high, is located to the right, featuring similar hoodmoulded windows.

The interior is surprisingly plain and simple compared to the exterior, and displays a classical rather than Gothic style with simple moulded cornices, four-panelled doors, and a staircase with stick balusters and turned newels. Connected by a wall to the south-west corner of the garden front is a former coach house, constructed of coursed stone rubble with a corbelled stone stack at its gable end.