Shell Cottage Shell House Including Forecourt Railings Shell Orchard

Shell House, Shell Orchard, and Shell Cottage are a large house now divided into three dwellings, dating from the early to mid-18th century. The front range, known as Shell House, features coursed and squared rubble with dressed alternating quoins, an eaves band, a moulded dentil cornice, and an ashlar parapet with coping. The slate roof has coped verges and end ashlar stacks. The building is two storeys high with an attic and consists of three bays, each with 12-pane sash windows in plain freestone surrounds. The centre of the first floor has a window in a moulded architrave topped with a triangular pediment and an urn. The central door opening is framed by a bolection-moulded architrave and has a stone shell hood supported by enriched folded scroll brackets, a six-panelled door, and a transom light.

At the rear, there is a wing divided into two dwellings. To the left is Shell Cottage, which has a double Roman tile roof, is two storeys high, and has two bays with gables that have copings—one topped with a ball finial and the other with a base for a finial. It features three sash windows with glazing bars and one two-light stone-mullioned window, along with a gabled porch with a coping. To the right is Shell Orchard, which has stone-mullioned windows. Shell House is complemented by wrought-iron forecourt railings. The interior is said to have a painting on the wall behind wood paneling above the fireplace in the kitchen.