Firwood

Firwood is a large detached house with an attached chapel, originally built in the mid to late 17th century, with significant additions around 1830 and a chapel added around 1890 for Christopher Smith. The building features a combination of ashlar and random rubble limestone, with ashlar chimneys and roofs made of concrete tile, stone, and Welsh slate.

The main elevation, dating from the 1830 addition, is a two-storey rectangular block with an attic. The south front has three windows, all 12-pane sashes, except for the glazed doors on the left. There are two segmental two-storey bows, with ground floor openings set in segmental arched recesses, and a similar recess for the central upper floor sash window. The central doorway features an 8-panel fielded door with a decorative rectangular light above and side lights, all framed with Regency architraves. A portico porch supported by Ionic columns in antis has a moulded cornice with a blocking course, and there are three ball finials on the roof.

On the west side, there are central ground floor and two upper floor sashes in plain openings, with the band and cornice continuing from the front. The earlier part of the house to the left has scattered timber mullioned windows, mostly with leaded iron casements and timber lintels, along with two 20th-century raking roof dormers. A 19th-century ridge-mounted chimney is present, and the roof is hipped at the north end, where there are 19th-century attached outbuildings.

The east side features a two-window ashlar elevation that returns from the front. The late 19th-century chapel is linked to the house by a flat-roofed 20th-century addition, which is not of special interest, and the chapel has simple traceried windows. Inside, the doorways have Regency architraves, and there is an elliptical staircase with stick balusters, illuminated by an oval domed roof-light.