Sorrelsykes House

Sorrelsykes House, now divided into four separate houses, is an early 19th century country house with additions made in 1921. The exterior is stuccoed to resemble ashlar, and it has a stone slate roof. Originally designed in a U-plan, the rear of the house was infilled in 1921. The east front has a six-bay arrangement, with a central three-bay section that projects slightly. The centrally positioned entrance has a part-glazed door set within an architrave with a cornice supported on consoles. The ground floor features four-pane sash windows, while the first floor has four-pane sash windows set within eared architraves. A boldly modillioned pediment sits above the central three bays, containing two unequally-hung nine-pane sash windows within the tympanum. The first bay has chamfered rusticated quoins. A two-story canted bay is present, incorporating four-pane sash windows below three-pane fanlights in round-arched architraves, formerly keyed, with an impost band. The second and third bays feature a central projection, each with chamfered rusticated quoins and a ground-floor part-glazed leaved door below a three-pane fanlight with a chamfered quoined surround and round-arched architrave, formerly keyed; the architrave in bay two has pilaster capitals, and the architrave in bay three extends as a band. The first floor above these bays has four-pane sash windows with projecting sills and flush lintels. The seventh bay is slightly recessed and has chamfered rusticated quoins to the right; it features a ground-floor four-pane sash window above a three-pane overlight in a round-arched, keyed architrave with an impost band, and a first-floor four-pane sash window. The eighth and ninth bays are also slightly recessed with windows similar to those in the seventh bay. Modillion gutter brackets are present. The roof is hipped to the left. Corniced ashlar stacks are positioned between the first and second, second and third, third and fourth, seventh and eighth bays, and at the right end of the building. A semicircular projecting bay with curved glass in sash windows (plain glass in the lower sashes, eight panes in the uppers) is on the left return. Several lead rainwater pipes are present, along with an original hopper-head on the left return. A 19th century timber and glass conservatory is located at the north end of the east front.