Keyford House And Conservatory

Keyford House and Conservatory is a Grade II listed building located on Little Keyford Lane. The front of the house dates from the 1830s and is designed in the Gothic Revival style, serving as an extension to an earlier house from the early 18th century. The building is two storeys high and constructed of ashlar stone, featuring a moulded string course over both the ground and first floors. It has buttresses with pointed weathering, niches, and panels; two on the main part of the house have lost their pinnacles, while others, including one to the left and four on the conservatory, still retain theirs. The roof is hipped and covered with slate.

The left-hand bays maintain a parapet with a blind pointed arcade that once extended across the rest of the house. The façade consists of two and three bays with glazing bar sash windows. In the main part, the first-floor windows are separated by pointed niches, and these windows feature drips, blind flanking panels, and Tudor arch heads. The ground floor has tripartite windows with four-centred heads, which include blind intersecting tracery and foiled window heads, along with blind flanking panels below the drips. A projecting gabled bay to the right has a similar window and a door that cuts across the right-hand buttress, linking to an octagonal conservatory with a pinnacled buttress and modern glazing.

At the rear, there are five ranges of windows; three on the first floor and one on the ground floor to the right have early 18th-century ovolo sections with cornices. The two central bays feature altered mullion windows with decorated leaded glazing. A projecting two-storey tower porch, added in 1887, is located left of centre and has a Tudor arch entrance, with the first floor jettied and half-timbered. Inside, the ground floor includes two rooms with early 19th-century fireplaces and Greek key cornices.