Westerholme And Attached Gates, Gate Piers And Railings To North West

This is a mid-19th century house incorporating an earlier 18th-century section to the rear. It is built of stucco with dressings in Ham Hill stone, and has a slate roof with stone copings, moulded kneelers, and stacks to the gable ends. The house has a double-depth plan, with original service extensions to the front and rear left, and a long wing to the rear right.

The main block presents a virtually symmetrical three-window facade, with a narrow window inserted to the left of centre on the first floor. All windows are 6/6-pane horned sashes in eared architraves with bracketed sills, except the inserted window to the first floor, which is vertically 2/2-panes. A narrow, set-forward gable is centrally positioned and features stone pilasters and coping, topped by a projecting porch with an entablature supported by square-section columns with segmental arches. A window sits above the porch. The south return has two first-floor windows (the left one blind) and one ground-floor window, all in plain surrounds. A single-storey service wing steps forward to the street; the wall sweeps up to the house, revealing a door to the housekeeper's room, facing west towards the porch. At the rear of the main block is a conservatory with margin panes and 2/2-pane sashes, alongside a loggia to the right rear wing, facing east.

The large entrance hall features an open-well open-string staircase with turned balusters, a swept mahogany rail, and a curtail-step. A passage to the service wing ends with two curved doors; one leads to the housekeeper's room and the other to a rear kitchen, which contains an 18th-century stone fireplace with a patent spit-turner. This indicates the kitchen was once part of the older Doniet House.

Spearhead railings with urn finials, along with a gate, enclose the forecourt. A low limestone rubble wall or plinth, approximately 2 metres long, with 1860s spearhead railings is attached to the north-west corner of the house. This is connected to gate piers for Doniet House, which have moulded plinths, chamfered corners, moulded cornices, shallow swept caps with balls, and flank double wrought-iron gates with plain rails and a horizontal scroll band. To the right, earlier 1800s spearhead railings sweep down in steps to a matching gate, and connect to a high rubblestone wall attached to the north-west corner of Acacia House.