Abington House

Detached L-plan seven-bay two-storey house, built c. 1790. Hipped and pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and return to rear. Rendered walls having render quoins. Square-headed opening with limestone sills, some with remains of six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening having render surround. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to east with hipped slate roof. Rubble limestone and sandstone walls. Elliptical-headed carriage arch to west elevation. Multiple-bay two-storey L-plan range of outbuildings to south-east having pedimented elliptical-headed carriage arch to centre-bay. Hipped and pitched slate roof with brick chimneystack. Roughcast render over rubble limestone walls. Blind roundels to first floor having inset arrow slit windows. Oculus to pediment centre-bay. Camber-headed door openings. Camber-headed carriage arch. Elliptical-headed carriage arch to west leading to courtyard.

This substantial house, although derelict, retains its early Georgian aspect and complex form, indicating various building phases in its history. It retains high quality salient features such as limestone sills and slate roof. The outbuildings are a particularly notable example of nineteenth-century planned agricultural architecture. The pediment adds an air of grandeur to the façade and the blind roundels with arrow slit windows are unusual, distinguishing features.