Former country house, probably the seat of the Mellish family now a house and attached outbuildings. Early C17, early C19. The early C17 wings now used as storehouses. The C19 farmhouse is of rendered red brick. Hipped slate roof with eaves overhang. 2 rendered stacks. Set On a plinth. 2 storey, 3 bay east front with first floor band. Central later C19 porch set on a plinth with cornice which slightly projects in the centre. Arched entrance with pendant keystone, flanked by single raised roundels. Inner 8 fielded panel door and overlight. Either side are 2 sashes with 3 similar sashes above, all have wedge lintels and keystones. To the right, set back, is a 2 storey, single bay wing with parapet hiding the roof line and right pilaster rising above the parapet. Single sash with wedge lintel and keystone. Above is a single, similar, smaller sash and lintel. Further right is the left gable of the northern C17 wing. Red brick and ashlar. Slate roof. Single rendered ridge stack. Raised ashlar coped gables with kneelers. Moulded wooden eaves band. Set on a redbrick plinth with 2 flush ashlar quoins on the right. 2 storeys plus attic, 5 bays. Single, part blocked 2 light ashlar window with a single transom and mullion to the upper half and flush ashlar quoin surround. To the left is a doorway with elliptical arched moulded ashlar surround and C17 panelled wooden door with wooden keystone, further left is a similar blocked window, a similar, smaller, doorway and door and a C20 doorway with wooden door under segmental arch with the remains of a similar window to its left. Above is a smelt blocked opening with a small doorway with wooden door to the left. There are 2 round tie plates. In the left gable are 2 Yorkshire sashes with a single ashlar cross window with flush quoin surround above, and in the attic a single ashlar lunette window. In the right gable is a single ashlar cross window and 4 tie plates. Attached via a low brick wall with a large glazing bar fixed light is the second C17 wing. Red brick with flush ashlar quoins to the left and to the rear right and some coursed rubble to the right base. Pantile roof. Raised, ashlar coped gables. Single ridge and left gable red brick stacks, the ridge stacks also being rendered. Wooden curbel table. 2 storeys plus attic, 3 bays. Single ashlar window with single mullion and to the right a blocked arched entrance. Above are 3 ashlar cross windows with dripmoulds. To the rear, attached via a 2 storey, 2 bay, red brick and slate wing, is the C19 house. Projecting from the left of the northern wing is the former malt house. West side with altered opening. East side, red brick corrugated roof. Slightly taller left bays, part with dentil eaves, having a single blocked pointed arched doorway flanked by single similar arched windows. Above is a blocked window opening under segmental arch. There are 2 tie plates, to the right is the lower 4 bay range with raised eaves band. Doorway and 3 window openings, above are 4 window openings. All openings are under segmental arches. The rear fronts of the C19 and C17 wings form a courtyard. The rear of the north wing has a doorway under a flat arch with stone surround and dripmould and to the right a single ashlar cross window with similar dripmould and flush ashlar quoin surround. Above are 2 ashlar windows each with single mullion and similar surround. There are 2 round tie plates. The second C17 wing has a single ashlar tripartite cross window with similar, dripmould and surround. To the right is a doorway under a flat arch with chamfered ashlar surround and similar dripmould, a single sash and further right a blocked doorway. Above are 2 ashlar cross windows with similar surrounds. (NCC/js)