The Close

The Close is a detached house, linked by a doorway to Stayts Farmhouse. It dates to the 18th century and is constructed of coursed squared and dressed limestone, covered by a stone slate roof with ashlar stacks. The rectangular plan includes several small lean-to extensions and a porch at the rear. It is two storeys and has an attic.

The front facade has three windows. The windows are a mix of 20th-century metal casements with wooden lintels, a three-light double-chamfered stone-mullioned casement with a stopped hood to the ground floor, and further stone-mullioned casements with double-chamfered surrounds and hollow-moulded mullions. A raking half dormer features a hollow-chamfered stone-mullioned cross window within a double-chamfered surround. A small stair light is set within a flat-chamfered stone surround, centrally placed between the two floors. A small corbelled projection marks the former location of a bread oven on the right gable end. The attic has a two-light stone-mullioned window with two narrow lancet-headed lights and a timber lintel, alongside 20th-century metal casements with timber lintels at the rear. All casements have leaded panes, and some retain early handles. Access is gained via a plank door to a 20th-century gabled porch, or through a lean-to at the rear. Single slate-hung dormers are located to the left front and rear, with two similar dormers at the rear. Axial and gable-end stacks are present, the latter with a flat-chamfered skirting and moulded capping.

Inside, the ground floor features a spine beam with a bar and diamond stops. There are two open fireplaces, one with a bressumer beam that may originally have been Tudor arched. A 17th-century fireplace with a dressed stone surround and a moulded hood is found in an upstairs bedroom. The building was reportedly once used by a group of weavers.