Ye Old Mansion House

Ye Old Mansion House is a 2-storey building with 3 windows across its front, now subdivided at ground-floor level into a 2-window house on the left (No. 22) and a 1-window shop on the right (No. 20). The front is rendered in whitened pebble-dash with a black-painted smooth-rendered plinth and imitation timber-framing in the upper storey. It has a steep slate roof, a reduced stone stack to the left, a central brick stack, and a projecting 1st-floor stack at the right gable end.

The shop front is symmetrical with a panelled stall riser, plate glass windows flanked by colonnettes, a fascia and billet frieze at the cornice. A central recessed glazed door with lower panel and overlight provides access.

No. 22 has pilaster strips in the lower storey. Its central entrance is reached up slate steps with scrollwork iron railings. The door is a replacement half-glazed fielded-panel design set beneath an earlier lozenge-pattern overlight. The entrance is flanked on the left by a 20-pane hornless sash window and on the right by a 16-pane hornless sash window. Both have eared and lugged architraves with pediments. The first-floor windows are 20-pane hornless sashes to right and left, with a 16-pane window in the centre.

The gable ends and rear are rubble stone. The left gable end shows uneven stonework suggesting partial rebuilding, with inserted ground and 1st-floor windows on the left side. The rear elevation has two 1st-floor 2-light casement windows above a pebble-dashed lean-to with fixed small-pane windows and a 20th-century steel-framed 2-light window. A replacement doorway is set into the splayed left end.

A 1½-storey rear wing extends in line with the left gable end. It has a large rear lateral stack offset to the left, with the upper part rebuilt in brick. All openings facing the rear courtyard are altered. At the left end is an original timber lintel above a later half-glazed door and small-pane window. To the right is a half-glazed door beneath an original timber lintel, followed by a fixed inserted window and a boarded door with 19th-century brick segmental heads. The attic has a shuttered opening to the left and a larger opening to the right infilled with 20th-century glazing. Where ground level is higher at the rear wing's gable end, an inserted panel door in a concrete surround provides access to the attic. The rear facing Bull Cottages has a small-pane 3-light casement window under a wooden lintel.

Internally, the first floor at the right end above the shop contains an original fireplace with a stone shouldered lintel. The rear wing has two rooms with joist-beam ceilings, one featuring run-out stops, and a large fireplace with timber lintel.

This property belongs to a group designated as 20-22 High Street.