The Close

The Close is a house, now serving as a children's home, built in 1895 by Walter H Brierley. It is designed in a Jacobean style and constructed from red brick with ashlar dressings and a plain tile roof. The building has an L-shaped plan, with the main front featuring a service wing at a right angle to the rear left.

The main front is two storeys high with attics and consists of four bays. It has a plinth that extends to the sill level, topped with brick coping. The central entrance features a board and stud door set within a quoined, chamfered, four-centred arched surround. The outer bays are highlighted by full-height canted bay windows with parapets, which include five-light double-chamfered mullion-and-transom windows with single side lights on the ground floor, and above them, five-light mullioned windows. To the left of the door is another five-light double-chamfered mullion-and-transom window, while to the right is a seven-light mullioned window with two major mullions.

On the first floor, the two central bays are adorned with six-light double-chamfered mullioned windows. Above the canted bays, there are two-light flat-headed dormers, and near the ridge, the central two bays feature two smaller two-light dormers. The stone coping with parapets extends around to the bay windows, and there are external gable stacks along with a large stack at the central ridge.

The service wing on the right side includes a main entrance porch with an embattled parapet to the left, featuring a chamfered round-arched doorway adorned with two stone crests above and a cornice. To the right of the porch is a three-light chamfered mullioned window, and a similar two-light window is located to the far left beyond a tapering stack. The right side of the wing has six bays with various casement windows.

Inside, there is a large inglenook fireplace in the panelled dining room, along with two other original fireplaces located downstairs.