Maescelyn House

Maescelyn House is a two-storey and attic building, constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century. It is built with rubble stone fronts, incorporating pink freestone dressings including gable parapets, stringcourses, cill and eaves bands. The roof is tiled, with cylindrical stone chimney stacks, some of which are grouped.

The west front features twin, asymmetrical Arts and Crafts gables. Tall finials are present, along with narrow attic lights set above the stringcourse, each with a two-light casement window below. A narrow, two-storey porch, set to one side, has a gablet to the front and trefoil-shaped parapets to the sides. A two-light, cross-framed oriel window, with some coloured glass, projects from the first floor. A pointed arch sits above a raised, shouldered entrance, which is itself accessed by a boarded door fitted with decorative iron hinges and a bell-pull. A trefoil-headed window is located to the right side.

The south (main) front is asymmetrical, comprising four bays. An advanced and splayed two-storey bay, with a steep pitched roof and weather vane, is positioned on the left. A gabled bay, with a finial, forms the end of the eastern cross-range on the right. There is one two-storey and attic bay, with similar gable treatment to the dormer (though the finial is missing), and one two-storey bay towards the centre. Cross-frame windows are present throughout, with the exception of the attic and a single light in the centre left bay. Blind trefoil heads decorate the ground floor windows.

The east front is two windows wide, with gabled chimney breasts and a paired, central bellcote featuring ornamental bargeboards. The window glazing is similar to that of the south front. A hipped roof service extension adjoins the building and extends beyond the rear, with brick walls on the inner sides.

The north (rear) elevation displays an asymmetrical design with a tall, trefoil-headed window to the staircase. A central dormer features arched and bracketed bargeboards. A gable to the rear of the left cross-range has a finial. Cross-frame windows, offset in the left-hand bay, provide light to the back staircase. A buttress/chimney stack is located towards the centre right.

The interior retains a robust, open well staircase with turned banisters and octagonal newel posts topped with ball finials. The porch floor is tiled. The influence of the architect Pearson is not evident in the main ground floor rooms.