Talley House

Talley House is a large, symmetrical house built in the late 18th century, with wings added around 1830. The exterior features roughcast walls and a low-pitched hipped stone-tiled roof with wide eaves. The central block is three stories high with three windows, although all windows have been replaced with UPVC except for the second floor, which retains 12-pane hornless sashes. The central entrance has a bracketed wooden canopy above a half-glazed door.

The house has two single-bay, two-story wings that are of equal height to the main structure and slightly project forward. These wings feature elliptically-headed ground floor French windows with modern glazing. The right wing has a 12-pane hornless sash on the first floor, while the left wing has a similar modern UPVC sash.

The south elevation is two stories and three bays wide, with all windows being 12-pane modern UPVC sashes. The central doorway is set under an elliptical arch and features a panelled door with a plainly glazed fanlight and flanking vertical lights. The wooden Doric portico that once adorned this entrance has been removed.

The north elevation is utilitarian and three stories tall, with an irregular arrangement of windows, most of which have been replaced with UPVC. However, a central 12-pane hornless sash remains, along with a fixed 9-pane window on the extreme left of the first floor. There is a small porch to the left with a stone-tiled roof.

The rear elevation is irregular, with slightly projecting wings; the right wing is windowless while the left has two modern windows. The centre features two gables and two 12-pane sashes on the upper floor. There is a high round-arched stair window under the right gable, which is a hornless sash with radiating upper glazing bars. To the left of this, there is a gabled two-story extension with a marginally glazed hornless sash window.

Inside, there is an early 19th-century staircase in an apsidal well, featuring stick balusters and decorative tread-ends. Some rooms still display early 19th-century plasterwork, although the fireplaces have been removed.