The Cushats

The Cushats is a roughly 1880 country house, likely built on the site of an earlier structure. It is a single-story building with an attic, originally designed as a 5-bay cottage orné, but later enlarged into a modest country house. The building features a steeply-pitched, multi-gabled roof with decorative bargeboards, brackets, and finials. The exterior is rendered masonry with polished ashlar dressings and raised quoin strips. A base course runs along the principal (southeast) elevation and along the front sections of the side elevations. Most windows are stone-mullioned, arranged in pairs and groups of three with chamfered margins, and have hoodmoulds over the ground-floor openings.

The entrance bay has a timber-boarded front door and a dormer window above. Three bays project to the left, with two large dormers in the attic. A single-bay section is recessed to the right, also with two attic dormers. A central wing extends to the rear, featuring a tripartite mullioned window on the ground floor and a four-light mullioned window on the first floor. An advanced bay to the right includes a stair tower in the re-entrant angle and French doors within a canted window facing the southwest elevation. A lean-to addition to the left contains a former rear doorway, now blocked, with a rectangular fanlight above.

The ground-floor windows have plate glass in timber casements, while the dormer windows have plate glass in timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with purple slate, and the rear lean-to has fish-scale slate tiles. The rendered chimney stacks have black clay cans. Decorative brackets support the cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior, dating from the 1930s, is characterized by Tudor-style dark wood panelling with linenfold details and stone fireplaces in the main ground-floor rooms.

A coach house and stable block, built in the early 20th century, is a single-story building with an attic and a rectangular plan. It includes a flat-roofed, bowed projecting entrance bay, an external stair, and a shallow-pitched gable to the front. The building has plain bargeboarded eaves, mock timber framing to the gables, and access points to both the coach house and stable. Timber-boarded doors, with eight-pane glazing and rectangular fanlights, are featured. The interior of the stable has timber-boarded partitions and a brick floor. This building is covered with a purple slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and has cast-iron rainwater goods.

A garage, likely built in the 1950s, consists of four bays and echoes the style of the main house with deep, bracketed, decoratively bargeboarded, T-braced eaves and finialled gables.