Upper Dolley House

Upper Dolley House is a Grade II* listed building featuring a two-storey stone-built range on the left and a tall two-storey and attic timber-framed wing on the right. This gabled parlour wing is believed to have been constructed in 1609 by Hugh Lewis, who served as High Sheriff of the county. Subsequent alterations include the addition of a staircase bay at the rear, the underbuilding of the jettied wing, the relocation of the entrance on the east side, and a recent restoration.

The ornate main gable is characterized by being twice-jettied, with carved brackets supporting moulded bressumers and a dragon-beam at the southeast corner over a bracket with a carved hand. The roof is covered with slate, featuring bargeboards adorned with intersecting enrichments and studding with stellar panels for infill. The ground floor's rubble wall has been built out, and the original close-studded wall has been removed. The attic has a flush set four-light window, while the main floor boasts a six-light mullioned window below, with brackets supporting the cill beams and leaded lights. There are also two and three-light mullioned windows on the east side, along with a modern four-light window on the ground floor.

The lateral chimney has a slated roof over the infilled attic bay, and the rear gabled wing, along with the left-hand range, is primarily built of rubble, with dressed masonry on the ground floor to the left and brickwork for the chimney stems. The simpler timber-framing of the northern section is repeated without a jetty in the rear and west walls, featuring a hooded doorway at the center of the south front.

Inside the parlour wing, much of the original layout remains intact, consisting of a large room separated from a smaller retiring room by a framed partition on both floors. The ground floor rooms feature stop-chamfered beams, fielded and other types of panelling, and cusped heads on doorways, with quarter-mouldings on the stone chimney jambs. The main room on the first floor is similar but lacks panelling. There is a fine later timber staircase at the rear of the cross passage, with ripple balustrades on the handrail, and the upper flight reuses a carved bargeboard. A vertically boarded screen, which is imported, is located at the cross passage leading to the dining room in the west range, which also features chamfered beams and a chimney piece with a great beam on chamfered stone jambs.