house — Main Street

Detached three-bay two-storey house with half-dormer attic, extant 1798, on a rectangular plan; three-bay full-height rear (west) elevation. Pitched slate roof with lichen-covered clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables with slate hung rendered chimney stacks to apexes having chamfered capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Rendered walls. Elliptical-headed central door opening in tripartite arrangement approached by platform of two cut-granite steps, cut-granite doorcase with monolithic pilasters supporting "bas-relief" cornice on blind frieze, and concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber panelled door having sidelights below fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (west) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central vestibule retaining moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling; round- or segmental-headed door opening into hall with classical-style surround framing timber panelled door having fanlight; hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Set back from road in landscaped grounds with roughcast piers to perimeter having cut-granite capping supporting wrought iron double gates.