No 3 And Adjacent Outbuildings

This is a house and former stables, likely dating from the early 18th century with alterations in the late 18th century. The house is built with painted incised stucco on a chamfered painted plinth, featuring pilastered quoins on the right side. It has a steeply-pitched Welsh slate roof with a displaced kneeler on the left, a modillioned cast-iron gutter, and rebuilt brick chimney stacks. The rear walls are cement-rendered. The former stables are constructed of whitewashed handmade bricks with a Welsh slate roof.

The main house is two storeys and four bays, with a lower two-storey, two-bay extension at a right angle to the rear. An additional, lower two-storey, two-bay former stable adjoins the extension. The front of the house features an off-centre, top-glazed six-panel door, set within a pilastered surround with a reeded entablature, mutule roundels, and a modillioned cornice, topped by a patterned fanlight. Broad sash windows with glazing bars are set within wooden architraves and painted stone sills. A carriage entrance is situated to the left of the door, featuring large plank doors. Above the carriage entrance is a smaller sash window with glazing bars in a matching surround. A staircase window to the rear has intersecting glazing bars.

Inside, the rooms contain moulded plaster ceilings dating from the late 18th century. A room to the right of the entrance has a probable spice cupboard recess to the right of the fireplace. There’s a late 18th century staircase with rounded arches on both the ground floor and the landing, and late 18th century panelled doors throughout. The rear extension has two doors in painted stone surrounds, alongside two enlarged 20th-century casement windows above. The stable buildings have large plank double doors, flanking casement windows, a loft door with slit vents on either side, and an outshot extension to the rear, along with a late 19th century building set at a right angle. These buildings were used in the 20th century as part of the Lakeland Diary.