Stonehouse

Stonehouse is a house and adjoining cottage/dovecote, likely dating from the 17th century, with the main house built in the late 18th or early 19th century. The cottage/dovecote is constructed of coursed squared and dressed limestone, though the roof was missing at the time of a resurvey in 1987. The house itself is of coursed squared and dressed limestone, with an ashlar front featuring flat-chamfered side alternate quoins; it has an artificial stone slate roof at the front and large concrete tiles to the rear. The house has a gable end facing the road and is linked at its opposite gable end to the cottage/dovecote via a small single-storey extension.

The house is two storeys with an attic and cellar. The front has a symmetrical three-window arrangement: two sixteen-pane sash windows on the ground floor, with two similar windows above. These are framed by plain architraves and keystones. A central front door features four fielded panels and two flush panels within a round-headed surround, with a plain architrave, imposts, and keystone; it includes a fanlight and an open triangular pediment supported by moulded brackets, with a band separating the ground and first floors. Three 20th-century two-light dormers with glazing bars are visible in the roof. The building has a moulded stone eaves cornice, gable-end stacks (one only a stump, one with moulded capping), and flat coping to the gable ends. There are no windows on the gable end facing the road, or to the rear of the house.

The combined cottage and dovecote features a 2-light casement with leaded panes on the ground floor of the dovecote, a plank door to a later extension on the left, a 2-light casement with glazing bars to the left, and a fixed casement with glazing bars and flat-chamfered surround above. Inside the cottage/dovecote, a large open fireplace with a bressumer is present, along with a spiral staircase to the left. Brick-lined pigeon holes from the level of the first floor extend upwards on three sides of an adjoining room. A timber-framed partition wall, with rendered infill, divides the two parts of the cottage/dovecote at the first floor. The cottage/dovecote was undergoing conversion at the time of resurvey in April 1987. The interior of the main house was not inspected.