Coombe House

Coome House is a detached dwelling, dated 1728 as indicated on a rainwater head. The house is constructed of squared and coursed marlstone with limestone ashlar pilaster strips to the corners and central bay. It has a hipped stone slate roof and a large stone stack on the right. The original design was a simple rectangular block to which a wing was added to the left around 1930. The house has two storeys, an attic, and a basement, with a five-window front. The windows are good original sashes with glazing bars set within plat-band surrounds featuring keystones and stone aprons dropped from a string band to segmental window heads. There are three small hipped dormers with two-light casements incorporating leading. The basement windows have two-light flat beaded stone mullion casements. A central eight-panel fielded door is set within pilasters and has an open baroque pediment on consoles, approached by four semi-circular stone steps; the door and central bay are contained within full-height pilasters. At the rear, a staircase window mirrors the detailing of the main elevation, and a wide panelled door provides access to the rear wing.

The interior includes a very fine oak dog-leg staircase with twisted balusters and a swept handrail. On the ground floor, the room to the right is a painted panelled room, believed to have fielded pine panels, and a fireplace framed by a pair of full-height fluted Doric pilasters with a triglyph frieze. Many original panelled doors and shutters, made of oak and painted, remain, along with one shell cupboard. The full-width cellar has a stone barrel vault and Welsh cross-vaults to the windows. A steep flight of stone stairs enters through a broad plank door at the north end.

Coome House is a very fine and largely untouched example of a Uley clothier's house, originally perhaps rendered, and represents a valuable surviving example of its type.