Westgrove House

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1800, with three-bay side elevations and rear elevation having full-height lean-to outbuilding attached to east end, hipped slate roof entrance porch, and hipped slate canted-bay window to east elevation with moulded cornice. U-plan hipped slate roof to house with lead ridge capping, eaves course, rendered chimneystacks with moulded copings, those to front roof being central, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Hipped slate roof to canted-bay window. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings set in square-headed recesses, having timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows and painted stone sills. Replacement timber casement windows to porch. Diamond leaded timber casement window to rear elevation. Square-headed door opening to porch with double-leaf timber panelled doors. Outbuildings around yard to rear having pitched and hipped slate roofs, roughcast rendered walls and timber battened doors. Walled garden to west, having castellated coping to east side and entered via roughcast rendered gate piers having wrought-iron gates. Rendered boundary walls with ashlar limestone gate piers to road with limestone wheel guards.

Occupied by the Ryall banking family circa 1840, this attractive middle-sized house exhibits fine features including timber sliding sash windows, a diamond leaded window to rear and a canted bay window to the east. This building complex, which comprises the house, its outbuildings, the imposing gate piers and a walled garden with decorative castellations, has been preserved in its original form and context, forming a pleasing group in the landscape.