The Grooms House

The Grooms House is a Grade II* listed building, now part of a school, dating from the early 18th century, with possible earlier origins. It is constructed of coursed squared ironstone with limestone ashlar dressings, featuring a brick front on the east side and a Collyweston stone slate roof with coped gables and moulded stone ridge stacks. The house has two storeys and an attic, designed in an H plan.

The west front is five windows wide and features a central six-panelled door with a traceried overlight set in a roll-moulded surround. The windows are wooden cross-framed with gudgeon-hung, iron-framed leaded casements, all in roll-moulded surrounds. There is a plinth and a band between the storeys. The east front, made of red brick with burnt headers, has 8/8 sash windows, while retaining similar detailing to the west front.

The south front has projecting gables on both the left and right. The left gable has sash windows arranged in a cross pattern on the ground and first floors, while the right gable features blind cross-framed windows, with both gables having two-light segment-headed casement windows in the attic. Ionic corner pilasters and moulded eaves enhance the design. The central linking block includes a door with an overlight in a roll-moulded surround, flanked by sash windows in a cross pattern on the ground and first floors.

Inside, there are two staircases: one is a dog-leg design, and the other features slender turned balusters and square newels, likely from the 19th century. The house contains some two-panel and square-panel doors, and the original hall in the central block is lined with re-used 17th-century rectangular panelling. The ground floor room in the east wing is lined with bolection-moulded panelling.