Fortwilliam

Detached irregular-plan five-bay single-storey with attic house, built c. 1880, now disused. Gabled end bays to front elevation, that to south-west projecting, both with canted-bay windows. Two-storey elevation to rear of main block. Multiple-bay two-storey return to north-west, partly outbuilding, and three-bay return to south-west, with gabled porch to front elevation. House apparently incorporating fabric of earlier dwelling. Projecting stair block to rear elevation, flanked by sinle-storey lean-to additions. Pitched slate roof with overhanging rendered eaves, timber bargeboards, rendered chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Slate roof to south-east canted bay window and felt to north-east, with cat-slide slate roof to rear stair block. Roughcast rubble limestone rendered walls, exposed to two-storey return. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills. Mainly replacement uPVC windows to front, and mainly timber sliding sash windows to rear, sash windows being one-over-one pane, some with timber internal shutters. Round-headed door opening to porch having timber panelled door and fanlight. Yard to north-west with multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to north-west, with pitched and hipped slate roof, remains of roughcast render to rubble limestone walls, segmental-arch carriage entrances and square-headed windows with brick surrounds. Two-bay three-stage castellated folly, possibly originally dovecote, to north-east, having flat-roof with rubble limestone and red brick castellated parapet, rubble limestone walls with dressed limestone string courses between stages, with pointed arch openings having red brick surrounds. Roughly dressed limestone gate piers to south-west entrance to yard, with cut limestone caps.

A late nineteenth-century Tudor Revival style house designed by Sir John Jackson who was associated with the construction of the Tower Bridge in London. The original character and form of the building have been largely retained, and this is in part due to the survival of features such as timber bargeboards, canted-bay windows, and the retention of many timber sliding sash windows. An interesting outbuilding to the rear with a castellated roof may have once been a dovecote, and complements the overall composition of house and outbuildings on the site.