Abbey House

Abbey House is an earlier 19th-century house with later additions to the rear. It is an asymmetrical two-story, three-bay gabled L-plan house, with a prominent section advanced to the outer right. A circular-plan tower is set into the angle of the L-shape. A single-story addition extends to the rear, with a separate dairy adjoining. The house is built of harl-pointed whinstone rubble with cream sandstone dressings, a harled lean-to addition to the rear, and a whitewashed rubble dairy. Features include stugged sandstone quoins, lightly droved sandstone margins, projecting cills (partly corbelled), and some hoodmoulds.

The north-east elevation (the main entrance front) has a full-height engaged tower centrally positioned, with a single window at ground level. A part-glazed timber door faces east, above which is a five-pane fanlight, and a single window at the first floor. A conical spire topped with a ball finial rises above. There are single windows at both floors in a recessed bay to the outer left. A canted window is at ground level in the gabled bay advanced to the outer right, with a single, hoodmoulded window above.

The north-west elevation shows a three-bay main block with a single window at ground level offset to the right of centre, and a single window centred at first-floor level. Further single windows are at both floors in the bay to the right. A narrow slit opening is located at ground level in the bay to the outer left, above which stands a wallhead stack. A single window is centred in a single-story wing recessed to the outer right, with a lower, single-story addition beyond, forming the dairy.

The south-east elevation has a single window at ground level, offset to the left of centre. A single window is centred in a lean-to addition recessed to the left, followed by another single window to the left. A boarded timber door provides access to the single-story dairy in the bay to the outer left.

The windows are timber sash and case, with plate glass and 4- and 12-pane glazing. The roof is covered with grey slate, with raised stone skews and cast-iron rainwater goods. A coped sandstone apex stack is located on the south-east side; wallhead stacks have been rebuilt in brick to the north-west and south-west. Various circular cans are present.

Inside the dairy, marble benches remain. The interior of the main house was not inspected in 1997.

Rubble-coped random rubble walls enclose the site. Circular-plan gatepiers flank the original entrance (which is no longer in use). These have tiered, conical sandstone caps surmounted by ball-shaped finials, and a timber gate.