Prospect House

Prospect House is a house, originally a farmhouse, dating back to around 1500, with significant alterations and extensions from the early 17th and early 18th centuries, along with 19th and 20th-century changes. The walls are largely of rubble, partly rendered at the rear, with some dressed stone details. The roof is thatched, featuring a decorative ridge and a hipped shape except for the gable above the lean-to at the west end. Four stone stacks are present, including a central ridge stack and a gable end stack.

The house began as a late medieval hall house, which was remodelled in the 17th century with the insertion of a floor into the hall and a cross wing replacing the original projecting west bay on the north (front) side. An additional wing was built in the early 18th century, set into the angle formed by the main range and the cross wing. A 20th-century single-storey lean-to porch covers a doorway leading to a cross passage on the right side of the second wing. A 20th-century two-light casement window is located to the right of the porch, and an early 19th-century three-light casement sits above, both within earlier window openings that have timber lintels. A 3-light 19th-century casement is in the end of the lean-to. The early 18th-century wing features two early 19th-century sash windows on the ground floor, flanking a former central doorway. This doorway retains an early 20th-century door, but the lower part has been blocked in with rubble externally; the upper part is a window with two leadlight glazed Arts and Crafts panels. Two early 19th-century sash windows with timber lintels are on the first floor of this wing, all the early 19th-century sashes having glazing bars. A blocked loft doorway is in the end of the cross wing wall to the left.

The garden (south) front has a doorway to the cross passage with a 20th-century door and a late 20th-century single-storey porch with a stone slate roof. To the right of this porch are two early 17th-century stone-framed and mullioned casements with ovolo moulds on both floors: a 4-light window to the right of the porch and a 3-light window to its left. A similar 3-light window is to the left of the porch on the first floor; these windows have eased drip moulds and metal-framed lights. A 20th-century window is to the left of the porch and at the end of the lean-to.

Inside, the hall contains an early 17th-century stone-framed inglenook fireplace with moulded jambs and a shallow arch, restored cornice on slender colonnettes with projecting caps, and a restored moulded cornice. A doorway in the masonry wall between the hall and cross wing has a door of early 17th-century panelling with wrought iron strap hinges. The cross-beamed ceiling in the hall incorporates re-used moulded beams of around 1500, tied into an early 17th-century bridging beam with ovolo moulding. A newel post and the lowest step of a spiral staircase survive, although the staircase has been altered to a straight flight from the cross passage. On the first floor, part of a raised cruck is visible above the cross passage wall, showing a cranked collar cut for a doorhead, a diagonally-set ridge pole, and a saddle piece. Some smoke-blackened rafters remain.