Mertyn Downing

A 2-storey 3-window house facing E, of pebble-dashed walls, slate roof with a tall central ridge stack, and a smaller C19 stack to the R end. The central doorway in a dressed stone surround has a Tudor head, above which is engraved 1675 RKP, while a former hood mould survives partially, having been mostly removed and obscured by the pebble dash. The doorway has an early C18 door with fielded panels. The windows are inserted mid C20 metal-framed casements. In the R (N) gable end is a 2-light casement in the upper storey. The rear of the main range has late C19 windows, including a C19 2-light casement to the larder lower L, a 12-pane horizontal-sliding sash window upper L and a 9-pane sash window to the centre. Offset to the R is the gabled rear wing, which has an end stack. On the N side is a single-storey lean-to with 3 boarded doors, of which the R-hand was to the bake house, which retains a small 2-light window further R and a reduced stack. Above the lean-to is a fixed small-pane metal-framed window lighting the stair. The S side wall has 2 mid C19 9-pane hornless sash windows in the lower storey and an inserted metal-framed window above.

The house has a lobby-entry plan with back-to-back fireplaces. The room on the L side of the entrance has a stone chimneypiece, probably of 1675, which has an ovolo-moulded surround and a lintel projecting on corbels, above which is a wave-moulded cornice beneath the ceiling. This room also retains a joist-beam ceiling with run-out stops. The room to the R has a plainer but large fireplace with timber lintel, probably of 1642. An additional unit at the R end is C19 and has thinner walls. It incorporates a larder with flagstone floor. The staircase in the rear wing has winders at the top and a landing with plain newels and balusters, of the mid C19. In the upper storey the corridor is also a mid C19 alteration, from which period date most of the present boarded doors with Norfolk latches.