The Dutch House

The Dutch House is a house built around 1700, although it confusingly features iron letters on its facade that read 1 6 0 3, along with a Greek letter Phi. The structure is made of brick and has a facade covered with black glazed pantiles, while the rear is finished with red pantiles. It stands two storeys tall with six bays. The facade includes burnt headers and a late 18th-century doorcase with an open pediment and a six-vaned fanlight, leading to a 20th-century half-glazed door. On the ground floor, there are two eccentrically placed three-light 18th-century casements under gauged skewback arches. A richly moulded projecting platband runs along the first floor, topped with tiles, and beneath it are the dating letters. The first floor features six renewed cross casements. The house has a gabled roof with shaped gables on moulded brick kneelers, and it includes internal end stacks and a ridge stack located to the left of center. The platband continues around the returns of the building. The rear has 19th and 20th-century outshuts, and the roof features three 20th-century sloping dormers. There is a one-storey extension to the north that dates from the 18th century, with a saw-toothed eaves cornice and a pantiled gabled roof. Inside, the lounge retains its original fireplace, constructed with header bond brick and a truncated bressummer, while the upper fireplaces have hollow and roll moulded surrounds. The roof structure consists of two tiers of butt purlins, with collars that are lap jointed into the principals.