The Bishops House

The Bishops House is a 19th-century building constructed of brick with stone dressings and a slate roof. It is two storeys tall and has a square plan, featuring a three-window entrance range and a short service wing at the rear. The design reflects the Anglo-Italian style.

The central entrance is highlighted by an advanced gable to the left, with a stone porch that has outer rusticated pilasters and coupled panelled pilasters with foliate capitals. Above the porch, there is a modillion cornice that supports a cast iron balcony rail. The entrance door is round-arched, and next to the porch, a canopy supported by ornate cast iron columns extends across the lower window of the right-hand bay.

To the left of the entrance, there is a stone canted bay window in the gable, featuring a segmentally arched central light and blind panels above the transom of the side lights. The upper windows have been renewed in round-arched openings set beneath steeply arched hood moulds. The cornice creates an open pediment in the left-hand gable and in a smaller dormer gable to the right.

On the garden front, there is a two-window range, with a tripartite canted bay window that has renewed French doors to the left and another set of renewed French doors in the original opening to the right. The bay window features stone swags and capitals on the central pilasters, with rusticated outer pilasters. Heavy stone brackets support the entablature, which forms a balconette with a cast iron rail above the right-hand window. The upper windows are both round-arched and set beneath steep hood moulds, with a double cornice as a sill band and a deep bracketed cornice at the projecting eaves.

The central stack has a moulded stone cap, while the chimney on the right-hand gable wall is truncated. Inside, the house retains its original plan, featuring a central top-lit stair hall that is separated from the entrance hall by a panelled archway. The staircase is in the 18th-century style, with moulded tread ends and a swept rail. Some original joinery, fireplace surrounds, and plasterwork also remain.