Warrens Gorse

Warrens Gorse is a large house built around 1922 by Norman Jewson. It is constructed from random, roughly squared and dressed limestone with dressed stone quoins, and has a stone slate roof with rubble stacks. The house is arranged over two and a half, one and a half, and single stories.

The entrance front features three gables, with a projecting two-story entrance porch positioned between the two left-hand gables. A one and a half-story service wing extends to the left. The main body of the house has single-light, two-light, and three-light double-chamfered stone mullioned casement windows on both floors. A prominent feature is a large, five-light stone mullioned casement with transom to the first floor of the gable to the right of the entrance porch. Single-light and a two-light window are cut out of a single stone slab on the gables. The entrance porch has a double studded plank door with strap hinges, set within a round-headed surround featuring a keystone with diamond-shaped decoration at its base. A stone carving, possibly of a raven, is positioned above the door. The service wing has stone mullioned casements and four slate-hung eaves dormers. All casements have leaded panes.

The garden front is triple-gabled and includes a single-story, flat-roofed conservatory added in 1961 to the left, and a service wing with a gable to the right. Stone-mullioned, flat-roofed canted bays project slightly from the left and right-hand gables and are connected by a verandah with a lean-to roof supported by two thin circular ashlar columns. A six-light stone mullioned window with two transoms is in the left-hand bay, and a four-light stone mullioned casement with transom is above it. Other windows are primarily single-light, two-light, and three-light, double-chamfered stone mullioned casements. Small single-light casements with leaded panes are found in the attics. A continuous run of six glass doors with timber frames and a stopped hood, installed in 1961, provides access from the verandah to the house, with a similar four-door opening serving the conservatory. Gable-end and axial stacks are topped with moulded cappings.

The interior contains a panelled hall and dining room, and an open well staircase with balusters having chamfered corners alternating with narrow fielded panels. The newels are each topped with carved finials depicting a squirrel, fox, and rabbit respectively. This staircase is notably similar to one at Waterlane House near Bisley, designed by Ernest Gimson. A principal room is double-height, with a recess featuring a low, coved plasterwork ceiling, previously decorated with plasterwork animals, on one side. An inglenook fireplace with a stone surround is at the rear of the recess. Six-panel doors with cord pull timber latches are found throughout the house.