Kents Bank House

Kents Bank House is a house, formerly an inn and school, dating to the early and mid-19th century with later 19th-century additions. It is now used as a Christian holiday centre. The house is roughcast with a slate roof. The south two-window range, which adjoins Mews Cottage, is believed to be the earliest part and is of two storeys plus an attic. The ground floor has timber canted bay windows with casements and glazing bars. The upper floors feature glazing bar sash windows in narrow painted surrounds with projecting sills, and the attic windows are partly within gabled dormers. A blocked doorway with a round-arched head is centrally located and now contains a window. Chimneys are situated to the left and right. A projecting gable wall to the right is blank except for a wide early 20th-century timber canted bay window on the ground floor. The verges project on brackets and there is a chimney with a limestone cap at the apex. The east two-window range has two similar projecting gables, with glazing bar sash windows. The ground floor of this section is largely covered by a mid-20th century flat-roofed extension, which projects forwards and has casements with glazing bars. Two further gables, in a style similar to the main building, appear to be later additions. The right-hand gable has French doors on the ground floor, and below the left-hand gable are two bays, with French doors on the ground floor in the right-hand bay. The interior was not fully inspected, but said to contain no features of architectural interest. Historical records show the building was the Kents Bank Inn on the first edition Ordnance Survey map from the late 1840s.