Blackwood House

Blackwood House is a small-scale country house built between 1830 and 1840, featuring Tudor details. It is two stories high and has parallel low ranges to the west from a service court. The exterior is constructed of stugged red ashlar coursers with polished dressings and hood-moulds.

Both the north (entrance) and south elevations have an advanced wide gabled bay at the eastern end, with three additional bays to the north. The central doorway has a moulded head and features a panelled door with a fanlight above. The first-floor windows break through the eaves and are topped with steep gabled dormer-heads. The elevations include sash windows, with lying-panes on the ground floor and a 12-pane glazing pattern on the first floor.

The east elevation has projecting ground floor windows and a central wallhead gable with a corbelled stack and individual flues. The house also features corniced end and axial stacks, shaped skews, skewputts, and finialed gables. The courtyard ranges are linked at the west by a screen wall, with a single diamond flue over each west gable. The roofs are covered with slate.

To the west of the house is an L-plan low stables and coachhouse court, which is similarly detailed. The north range serves as a three-bay stable, while the west range functions as a two-bay coach house. There are gatepiers to the north of the house, with square outer piers connected by short quadrants to taller, thinner inner piers. All piers are made of painted ashlar with pointed caps, and the piers at the east drive are also painted ashlar.