Mount Vernon

Mount Vernon is a large detached house, originally built around 1800 and enlarged circa 1820 for Joseph Partridge, a dyer. Constructed of ashlar limestone, with some areas rendered to imitate ashlar, it features ashlar chimneys and roofs covered with artificial stone slate and plain tiles. The house is designed in a picturesque style, incorporating Regency Gothic details during its enlargement.

The main house is two storeys with an attic, and includes a three-storey tower to the rear. The original part of the front elevation is on the right and exhibits diagonal corner buttresses and a two-window arrangement, with two-light mullioned casement windows. These windows have cusped heads, decorative leading, and hoodmoulds. A doorway on the left has a four-centred arch, and a similar arch defines a buttressed porch. A two-storey canted bay window is part of the left addition, with plain sashes on the ground floor and lozenge-paned sashes above. Four half-dormers are set into the eaves, each with a small lozenge-paned sash window. A projection to the left has a crenellated parapet and a four-centred arched doorway, screening a service wing at the southwest end. A plain gable end chimney is topped with Egyptian pots.

On the northeast side, two gables are visible with an ashlar chimney between them. The left portion of this elevation represents the original structure, again with diagonal buttresses and a two-storey canted bay window, the mullioned casements within a panelled border, with Tudor arched heads to the upper floor. The addition to the right has two storeys with a basement and is in a Regency Gothic style. Single-window fenestration is characteristic of the gabled northeast and northwest sides: a three-light window with pointed heads within a larger pointed arch is on the ground floor, and a two-light ogee window is on the upper floor.

The rear elevation showcases a tall, octagonal tower situated at an angle, with a hooded doorway and Tudor arched casements on each floor. The upper part of the tower is smooth rendered with a crenellated parapet and a blank quatrefoil panel. A three-bay loggia is present to the right, with a catslide roof extending from the main roof pitch. The arcade is formed by iron railings, and a central canted bay window has lozenge-paned glazed doors.

The interior features panelled shutters to all principal windows and a simple staircase with stick balusters.