Mulcaster House

Mulcaster House is a late 18th-century house with early 19th-century additions, built for James Mulcaster. It is constructed with painted stucco walls on a chamfered plinth, featuring angle pilasters, an eaves cornice, and solid parapets. The roof is of graduated greenslate with three boxed dormer windows, a stucco ridge, and end chimney stacks. The house has two storeys and five bays, with a four-bay return on Church Lane. It features a central stair and a double-depth plan. The central three bays project and are pilastered, with a panelled front door in a prostyle Corinthian porch ornamented with swags, an entablature, and a cornice. A further pilastered doorway is located to the left. All windows are sash windows with glazing bars, set within stone architraves.

The interior retains much original detail, including panelled internal shutters and panelled doors within fluted architraves. Simple moulded plaster ceiling cornices are present in the principal rooms, alongside original cast-iron fireplaces with fluted surrounds. A dog-leg staircase dates to the 18th century, with carved tread-ends, squared balusters and a moulded wooden handrail; a separate servants' staircase is likely from the 19th century. Historical records indicate that the house was shown on Ordnance Survey maps as Mulcaster Cottage on the Church Lane return, but the property is now unified. The house was built partly over the south ditch of the Stanwix Roman fort.