The Mount

The Mount is a late 19th-century house, originally built as a summer retreat by a Gloucester solicitor. It is constructed of squared random rubble with two-coloured brick dressings around the window heads and a flush band at the first floor level, with timber framing to the gables. The roof is tiled, with a crested ridge.

The house has two rooms at the front, one storey with attics, and a rear wing connecting to a look-out tower. The entrance front features a single-storey porch with brick steps, an arched head with a small window above, and a projecting roof supported by timber posts with glazed sides and built-in seats below. To the right of the porch is a three-light casement window with a flat-pointed head, and to the left a projecting chimney breast with slight offsets and a panelled stack. Above are two two-light dormers with rendered infill to the gables, and a gable chimney to the right. The main roof has wide eaves and a verge projection. The gable to the left has a one-storey canted bay with a hip roof; above this wall and gable are timber-framed with rendered infill and a three-light window, finished with a timber gable finial.

The stone ground floor extends to the look-out tower, with a later timber-framed upper floor added. The three-storey look-out tower has three-light windows on each side of the top floor, and above that, a low-pyramid roof with plain and shaped tiles, gablets on each face, a timber finial, and a weather vane. An external timber staircase provides access to the top floor. All windows have diamond-leaded lights.