Rawling

Rawling is a house dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century, possibly with earlier origins, and has undergone later alterations. It features a mix of rubble with ashlar and brick dressings, topped with pantile and Welsh slate roofs. The building has an L-shaped plan and stands two storeys tall.

The south range has three first-floor windows, a boulder plinth, and quoins. The window openings have brick sides, with sash windows that include glazing bars, except for a casement window in the central first-floor position, which has no corresponding opening below it on the ground floor. The upper courses of rubble appear to have been added later. The roof is pantiled with moulded coping, and there are corniced ashlar stacks at both ends.

On the rear, there is a first-floor casement window set in a flush ashlar surround. The right return of the main range features an 8-pane sash window to the left of a board door, which is framed in an ashlar chamfered triangular-headed surround, with no first-floor openings above. The rear wing is slightly set back and includes a single-storey lean-to in the angle, with two first-floor windows and quoins to the right. Above the lean-to, there is an 8-pane sash window on the first floor, and on each floor to the right, there is a sash window with glazing bars, with 8 panes on the first floor, set in bolection section ashlar architraves. The roof of this section is made of stone slate, with a shaped kneeler to the right and ashlar coping, along with a corniced ashlar stack over a large chimney to the right.

The rear of the wing has a small light vent and a single-light window in a chamfered surround, both located on the first floor. The gable end of the wing features a blocked window. Locally known as Priest House, there is a tradition that it is the oldest house in the area and once contained priest holes. It is certainly one of the earliest houses in the region, likely evolving from a late 17th-century south range with an early 18th-century rear range, and the south range was heightened in the mid or late 18th century.