Aketon Close

A house dating to circa 1905, built in the Vernacular Revival style. The house is constructed of rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and has stone slate roofs, featuring four tall stacks, crow-stepped gables, and a battlemented parapet. It is two storeys high with attics.

The east, or entrance, front is three bays wide with a slightly projecting central tower. A central doorway is set within a segment-headed arch incorporating small side lights. To the left is a single three-light mullion casement window. Above, a central similar window is accompanied by another similar window to the left and a small two-light mullion window to the right. In the tower above is a further three-light mullion casement. The south, or garden, front has a recessed centre and projecting side wings. A large, central, three-by-four-light cross-mullion window rises through two floors. Above this is a four-light flat-roofed dormer. The right wing has a two-storey round bay window with a five-light mullion casement on each floor. The left wing has a canted projecting chimney stack with two small single-light casements on each floor. The west front features an off-centre projecting gabled wing with a two-storey square bay window containing a four-light cross-mullion window, with a single light casement above a four-light mullion window to the right. To the left is a projecting canted chimney stack and two narrow casements.

The original interior of the building largely survives, with original panelled and plank doors throughout. The dining room has a stone arched inglenook and a four-centred arched fireplace with wooden Doric pilasters, wooden dado panelling, and an exposed stone frieze. The drawing room features an inglenook with an Adam-style Ionic plaster surround, a fireplace, coving, and dado panelling in the bay. The morning room has a segment-arched inglenook with a moulded ashlar fireplace and Delft tiles, along with unusual plaster coving with fleurons. The hall has an unusual Gothic arched fireplace and a stone staircase leading off, with a three-sided gallery featuring turned 'barley sugar' balusters. Bedrooms also have good quality contemporary tiled fireplaces.