Camrose House

Gentry house, rubble stone with hipped slate eaves roofs with altered flat eaves and two big red brick side-wall stacks each side. Roughly square plan with formal three-storey and basement five-window facade of cambered-headed sashes with thick glazing bars to 12-pane sashes with brick heads and stone keystones. Stone sills. Centre 6-panel door with 3-pane overlight and cambered head under flat hood on long console brackets. Door is reached up fine flight of 6 stone steps to slate-paved landing overarching basement area. C19 timber rails. Basement has 5 cambered headed openings. Area has iron railings with spearhead and fleur-de-lys finials. Left side wall has basement door with 4-pane overlight and 12-pane sash with thick glazing bars. Windowless right side wall with attached hipped matching range to right. This has basement and two storeys, the narrow front with 2 close-spaced upper windows over one central ground floor window and one to basement. The side wall has 2 windows each floor and one to basement. Rear is slate hung with one 5-panel fielded-panelled door. Rear of the main house is also slate hung with a large derelict C19 conservatory to ground floor left, hipped with hipped lantern. Four-window range with two long C19 stair lights, one over the other, with marginal glazing in second bay, the others with 12-paned sashes, the top left sash altered to fire door and ground floor left has broad opening into conservatory with steel lintel. Conservatory has tiled floor.

Altered interior, ground floor right room and entrance hall combined. with early C20 opening cut through rear to rear right room, with flat beam and fluted pilasters. Front right has early C20 fireplace and overmantel. Front left room has panelled shutters, possibly early C19. Plain cambered arch to rear stair hall. Rear stair is well-detailed mid C18 with three balusters of column-on-vase type to each tread, moulded rail and column newels. Scrolled tread ends. Dog-leg stair in 6 flights. Fielded panelled 6-panel door to each side stair hall.