Banks Fee

Banks Fee is a country house built around 1760, likely for John Scott, as suggested by a monument in the nearby Church of St James in Longborough. The building features ashlar and coursed squared and dressed limestone, with a slate roof and ashlar stacks. It has a square plan, although the northeast wing has been demolished. The house stands two storeys high with an attic and cellar, presenting a symmetrical garden front.

The ground floor rooms and entrance hall were extended forward by one bay around 1870. The entrance hall is set back slightly compared to the extensions on either side. The original facade and the extension have flat-chamfered quoins. The facade has a 2:1:2 window arrangement, topped by a triangular pediment with a modillion cornice above a central Venetian window featuring a keystone. There are modillioned eaves cornices flanking the pediment, with ball finials at the corners of the parapet. Below the Venetian window, there is a blind balustrade, and similar sections of blind balustrading are found on the parapet above the flat-roofed extension. All windows are 20th-century plate glass sashes set within moulded architraves with keystones. The central door is part-glazed and flanked by single lights, all within a moulded 20th-century architrave with a keystone. The east front includes two late 19th-century canted bay windows.

The north front has been repointed and altered at the entrance in the 20th century, while the west front remains unaltered. Inside, most principal rooms retain their cornices, and there are two original marble fireplaces, one located in the front right-hand room. Some original fielded six-panel doors with moulded architraves and friezes featuring patera decoration are present, along with shutters that have fielded panels. A curving late 19th-century stone staircase with a cast iron balustrade and a wreathed wooden handrail is illuminated by a central square stair lantern with original moulding.