Garth House

Garth House is a small country house of two storeys and attic, comprising a main range with a rear wing offset to the left, and an additional service wing set back at right angles on the left side. The walls are pebble-dashed with a slate roof featuring projecting boarded eaves, rendered and brick chimney stacks to the main house and a brick stack to the rear wing.

The three-bay entrance front displays large-pane sash windows. The right-hand bay sits beneath a gable with an attic sash window. A gabled dormer is positioned left of centre. The entrance occupies the narrow central bay, where a porch with double fielded-panel doors and flanking windows provides access. The lower storey has tripartite sashes with bracketed sills. The upper left window has a moulded architrave, the upper centre window a plain surround, while the right-hand upper window is tripartite matching the lower storey.

The right end wall features a large external chimney stack, possibly part of a 17th-century house, with the upper portion narrower and rebuilt. A further smaller external stack stands beyond it, with a single narrow sash window between the two. The rear wall retains earlier windows. On the right side is an 18th-century Venetian stair light with rusticated pilasters and hornless sash glazing. Lower left is a T-shaped mullioned window below a hornless sash window. Upper right is a three-light fixed window. The attic window is a late 19th-century large-pane sash.

The side wall of the rear wing comprises four bays with an added higher projecting round turret topped by a pyramidal roof, offset left of centre. The wing has large-pane sashes in the lower storey and small-pane sashes above. A rubble stone wall with a lean-to facing the yard is attached to the end of the wing.

The left gable end of the main house has an external chimney stack with the upper portion rebuilt in brick, a horned sash window upper left and a plate glass sash in the attic right of the stack. The rear wing, continuous with the left gable end, features an added late 19th-century conservatory in the lower storey below a large-pane sash window, and two two-light roof dormers with flat roofs. Further left is a late 19th-century link to the service wing, which has a hornless sash window over the conservatory and a hipped roof. The left side wall of the service wing contains a tripartite sash window in the lower storey.

The three-window service wing facing the front has a single casement in the lower storey and large-paned sashes in the upper storey, except the right side which has a small-paned sash. Above is a four-light roof dormer with a flat roof. The left gable end of the service wing is slate hung in the upper storey. Attached to it is a long, lower former coach house now converted to a garage, with a crow-stepped gable end. It has a projecting gabled bay offset to the right and three former carriage entrances with shallow stone arches. The rear of the service wing shows a full-height vertical joint right of centre, indicating that the right-hand end, which has a wide wooden lintel in the upper storey over a former opening, is later. The rear has mainly sashes under wooden lintels and is continuous with the rear wing of the main range, which has plate glass sashes under stone segmental heads and a boarded door within an open lean-to.

A central entrance hall leads to a stair hall containing an open-well stair with moulded tread-ends. The turned newels and balusters have been replaced, though the wreathed handrail remains original.