Pit House

The building is a house, likely dating to the 18th century, constructed of rubble stone with a stone-tiled roof and brick stacks. It is two storeys high with an attic. A prominent feature is a large four-shaft ridge stack and smaller end stacks.

The south front has a projecting, two-storey gabled porch centrally located between two unequal eaves gables. The porch features unusual rounded piers, adorned with raised rings at the base and neck of the piers. A large timber lintel sits above the entry, though it has been altered. A first-floor window in the porch is a small-paned, two-light design with arched heads to each light, and a stone hoodmould above. The interior of the porch has been plastered and contains a framed, boarded door. To the left of the porch, a two-window range features windows with stone hoodmoulds. The ground floor has a small six-pane sash window on the left and a small-paned horizontally-sliding pair of windows to the right. The first floor has a pair of large timber cross-windows, and a small casement pair is set within the stone gable above the right-hand window.

The two-window range to the right has a central gable containing an attic casement pair and a hoodmould. The first floor has two cross-windows with dripmoulds, while the ground floor has a triple casement and a pair of casements, both protected by a continuous dripcourse. The west end wall is roughcast and features an external chimneybreast.

The north front has a stone gable on the left containing a cross-window and a dripstone. A shallow-gabled, two-storey projection lies beneath, with a cross-window on the first floor and a casement pair on the ground floor, both with sloping plank drips above. To the left of the projection, a blocked door and cross-window have a drip, and a small single light is positioned at the extreme left on the first floor, with a hoodmould above. To the right of the projection, a cross-window has a dripstone. To the right of the gable is a three-window range, with one window to the left of the ridge stack and two beyond. A small window with a hoodmould is present on each floor to the left, with a pair above and a single window below. To the right, a two-window range includes a triple casement and a pair of windows above, with iron opening lights, possibly from the 18th century. Modern casement pairs, one large and one small, are also present below, the smaller window being misaligned. All these windows are topped with hoodmoulds over timber lintels.

The east end has a small, single-storey addition with an east-facing stack, a slate roof, two windows on the north side, and a door in the west end, which overlaps the north front.

The interior of the house was said to have been modernised around 1950 and was not available for inspection. It is believed to contain some fielded panelled shutters. Local accounts suggest a former priest’s hiding place and a circular stair, added circa 1950. Fox and Raglan’s historical records mention an original two-room plan and scroll stops with run-out stops to the spine beams.