Conheath House

Conheath House is a late 18th or early 19th century, two-storey, three-bay house with a basement. A stair to the garden and a low north wing were added in 1909 by architect James A Morris. The building is constructed of squared red rubble with polished margins and dressings.

The original house features an east elevation with a central Roman Doric-columned semi-circular porch, possibly designed by Morris, which is accessed by a flight of concentric steps. The porch contains a panelled door with a fanlight and sidelights, while the first floor has a tripartite window above, with the inner cill lowered to the level of the porch roof and an iron balustrade over it. Other windows on the house are 12-pane sashes. The structure includes a base course that continues as a cill course on other elevations, a first floor cill course, an eaves/lintel band, a cornice, and symmetrically placed stacks, all beneath a piended slate roof.

A terrace balustrade, possibly also by Morris, extends to the south and northwest elevation. The centre bay features a three-window bow with a curved roof, and the inner ground floor window has been replaced with French windows, approached by a flight of steps, also designed by Morris, which have guilloche moulded parapets. The outer ground floor windows are adorned with cast-iron balconies.

To the north, there is a balustraded single-storey addition over the basement, which includes a lower range with a basement entrance in the northeast re-entrant angle. This addition has moulded surrounds to a series of leaded windows in the curved north wall, and a sundial on the west wall. A stack rises above the wall head of the original house.

Inside the original house, the hall screen features tall, thin columns, along with decorative cornice and ceiling plasterwork, and panelled doors within architraves.