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Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1780, now disused. Having lean-to and single-storey square-profile extensions to rear (west) elevation and central breakfront to front (east) elevation. Hipped slate roof with red brick chimneystacks, terracotta ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls, rubble stone visible in places. Round-headed recesses to ground level, south elevation, and square-headed niche having tooled limestone sill to first floor, central breakfront, east elevation. Square-headed openings with tooled limestone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor, north and south elevations, two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows having slate sills to first floor, west elevation. Round-headed opening to ground floor, west elevation, with timber framed window. Square-headed opening to west extension having timber framed window. Red brick voussoirs visible in places. Openings to either side of breakfront to east elevation blocked up, limestone sills visible. Square-headed opening to east elevation with red brick voussoirs and timber panelled door having decorative overlight. Square-headed opening to north elevation of lean-to, with timber battened door. Outbuildings to west and north of house, with rubble stone walls and mixed slate and corrugated-iron roofs. Outbuilding to north of house with segmental-arched and square-headed openings having stone voussoirs. Rubble stone boundary wall with limestone copings to east of house with pair of square-profile rendered piers having limestone caps, flanking single-leaf timber gate.

This house retains a number of interesting features, including its tooled limestone sills, timber sliding sash windows, and most notably its overlight which is unusual, decorative and adds artistic interest to the house. The symmetricality of the façade is typical of houses of its size and era. The symmetrical façade is heightened by the central breakfront, hipped roof and central chimneystack.