Kenricks

Kenricks is a house, originally built as a rectory, dating from 1725 and incorporating an older structure at the rear. It was designed for Rev. Scawen Kenrick. The house is constructed of red and vitreous brick with red dressings, featuring a hipped slate roof and small brick chimneys. It is two storeys high and has cellars, with seven bays.

The facade includes a projecting plinth, a moulded brick cornice below a panelled parapet with stone coping which is ramped up over the central three bays. Stone ball finials are placed on the parapet. Brick pilasters define the corners and the corners of the slightly advanced central three-bay section. The windows are 3-pane sashes with gauged heads, and cellar openings are set into the plinth, featuring semi-circular arches with brick keyblocks. A flight of five moulded stone steps leads to the central glazed front door, flanked by wooden pilasters and a flat wooden hood supported by scroll brackets. A single-storey bowed projection, built in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, extends from the left-hand side of the house. A flint and brick wing to the rear of the right bays appears to be of earlier date than the main front facade. Later 19th and 20th century brick extensions are also present at the rear.

Inside, a fine wooden staircase dates back to approximately 1725, featuring twisted column balusters, three per tread, and carved scroll tread ends. The entrance hall was remodelled in the early 19th century, with staff-moulded arches and reeded doorcases. Late 18th and early 19th century fireplaces are found in the ground floor rooms, while fireplaces from around 1725 are located in first-floor rooms at the north end, characterised by staff mouldings, plain friezes and moulded cornices.