Jacobean House

Jacobean House is a building originally constructed as a school in 1618 and later converted into a large detached house. It is built of squared and coursed limestone, with a stone slate double cross-gabled roof featuring coped edges and small ball finials set on diagonal pedestals. The building has large ashlar stacks, with the upper sections rebuilt, and two continuous moulded string courses that step over the first-floor windows. The windows are stone hollow chamfer mullioned; two-light at the second and ground floors, with transoms at the first floor, and three-light at the ground floor, all with leaded glazing. A crude Jacobean portico with slender columns on high pedestals leads to a plank door within an arched opening featuring keystones and a classical entablature that projects over the columns. A double flight of stone steps leads to a rear entrance, set within a slightly pointed head and raised dais, which is part of the continuous string course. The property occupies a prominent position as one side of a loosely formed square. It was built as a school by John Barksdale and opened as The King's School in 1618.