Forss House

Forss House is an early 19th century double house that stands two storeys tall with a dormerless attic over a raised basement. The building features a five-bay south frontage, with the entrance located in the rear north elevation. The exterior is harled with tooled ashlar margins. The center entrance on the north elevation is obscured by a 1939 single-storey, three-bay off-centre porch that has a crenellated wallhead of varying heights. Above the doorway, there is a datestone with a moulded architrave and flanking windows.

The south front has long raised ground floor windows, some of which are blind. To the west gable, there is a later 19th century single-storey wing over a raised basement with two bays. The windows throughout the building feature 12- and 18-pane glazing. The house has four broad coped gable-end stacks with small attic windows, topped by prominent batteries of three square ashlar flues linked by a continuous cornice. There is also a similar pair of large gabled stacks with single flues on the north elevation. The roofs are covered with slate.

At the east gable, there is a glazed conservatory. Inside, the house has a plain interior with a long shallow flight of stairs in the center of the rear block, featuring a simple decorative cast-iron balustrade. The ground floor drawing room includes an Adamesque wood chimney piece, while a 1930s chimney piece in the northwest ground floor additional room is inscribed as being made from timbers of HMS Bruton, a flag ship of Nelson. The ceilings have simple moulded cornices.