Langton Mains, Langton House

Langton Mains, also known as Langton House, is an early 19th-century complex of buildings with later alterations and additions from the later 19th century. The site is comprised of three distinct groups of buildings arranged around a central courtyard. The buildings are constructed primarily of harl-pointed rubble stone with contrasting ashlar dressings, although one group features squared and snecked stugged sandstone.

The main southern group consists of two L-shaped, two-storey buildings forming a U-shaped courtyard. These appear to have served as a cart shed, accommodation, and possibly stabling. The north-facing elevation of the building to the north features a regular three-bay arrangement to its east range, with windows on the first floor of each bay. A round-arched opening, now partially bricked up, is centrally located at ground level, with a similar opening in the bay to the right. The east range has four regular bays with windows on the first floor and a door in each of the two inner bays. A later window was inserted mid-floor to the outer right, and another round-arched opening, also blinded, is present in the outer bay. The north range has a grouped three-bay section to the right, with windows on the first floor, and a possible doorway to the outer left. The north elevation incorporates a blinded window at first floor, with windows in the flanking bays, and a timber lintel over a ground-floor opening to the outer left. The south building’s east range features three bays on the west elevation, with windows on the first floor, and a variety of ground-floor openings. The east range has four bays, with windows on the first floor; the bay to the outer right has been blinded and extended downwards, and a round-arched opening has been blinded at ground level. The south range has a window on the ground floor centrally; a first-floor window to the left has a boarded door with an upper multi-paned panel, and a boarded and glazed door with an eaves window above is located to the right. The south elevation features eccentric Egyptian-style surrounds with keystones, voussoirs and a lugged lintel effect to each ground-floor opening, above which are windows on the first floor. A later window is present at ground level to the outer right.

The eastern group is a single-storey range running north-south. The west elevation includes a hayloft opening breaking the eaves in the bay to the inner left, with a window in the bay to the outer left and another opening to the outer right. A collapsed addition is present to the outer right. The east elevation has two windows with stop-chamfered margins breaking the eaves in the bays to the left, a door opening in the bay to the inner right, and an opening formerly suggesting further ranges to the east (these are no longer extant).

The northern group forms a U-shaped court and is single-storey.

The southern group's buildings have piended slate roofs with various brick stacks, some positioned as wallheads on the east elevations of the east ranges. The eastern group's windows have leaded lights, and it has a slate roof with crowstepped gables and a skew to the left of centre. An ashlar coped wallhead stack is present to the north and to the left of centre. The northern group has a slate roof with fish-scale slates, a louvred ogeed vent to the ridge, cast-iron cresting, and a crow-stepped gable to the east of the south range.

The interiors were not inspected in 1995.