The church has been altered and extended through the centuries, and was restored between 1866 and 1871. It is built in sandstone, with a roof of lead on the nave, tiles on the chancel and aisles, and stone slate on the north chapel. The church consists of a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a south porch, a chancel with a south organ chamber, a north chapel with a west aisle, a north vestry, and a west steeple. The steeple has a tower with a south door and clock face, a string course, two-light bell openings, corner gargoyles, an embattledparapet with crocketedpinnacles, and a recessed octagonal spire. There are embattled parapets on the nave, porch and aisles.[2][3]
The farmhouse is in sandstone with a Welsh slate roof. There are two storeys and an attic, a front of three bays, an outshut on the rear left, and a rear wing on the right with a single-storey extension. The doorway has a quoined surround, and a deep lintel containing an inscribed and dated panel. The windows on the front are horizontally-sliding sashes, and over the ground floor openings is a continuous hood mould. In the right return are mullioned windows with some mullions removed.[4]
The cowhouse with a dovecote above are in sandstone, with quoins, a hipped stone slate roof, and two storeys. In the ground floor is a doorway flanked by casement windows, and in the upper part are a casement window and a doorway, and between them is a Venetian window.[5]
A house later incorporating a shop, it is in sandstone, partly rendered, with quoins, and a pantile roof with copedgables and shaped kneelers. There are three storeys, three bays, a two-storey rear wing on the right, and an extension in the angle. On the left is a projecting shop front and a doorway with a quoined surround. The central window in the middle floor and all the windows in the top floor are mullioned with two lights, and the other windows are inserted casements.[6]
The cartshed is in sandstone with quoins and a hipped stone slate roof. It is a rectangular building with two storeys, and contains two segmental-arched cart entries. In the right return are two-light mullioned windows, and an upper floor doorway with a quoined surround and a dated keystone tooled on the lintel.[7]
The house, which was extended in the 19th century, is in sandstone, with quoins, and a Welsh slate roof with copedgables and shaped kneelers. There are two storeys, a main block of two bays, and flanking lower single-bay wings. The doorway has an architrave, plinth blocks, and a cornice, and the windows in the main block are sashes with projecting surrounds, sunken panels, paterae and cornices. In the left wing is an elliptical bay window with an apron, a pulvinated frieze and a cornice.[8]
The farmhouse is in sandstone, with quoins, a floor band, and a roof in Welsh slate and stone slate with copedgables and shaped kneelers. There are two storeys, a main range of four bays, a cross-wing on the right with a cellar and attic, and a rear wing on the left. The doorway has a partly quoined surround, and the windows on the front are casements. In the wing are sash windows, and at the rear of the main range are mullioned windows.[9]
A house, later divided into shops and offices, it is in sandstone, partly rendered, with chamferedquoins, and a Welsh slate roof with copedgables and shaped kneelers. There are two storeys and a gabled front of two bays. In the ground floor are shop fronts, one incorporating earlier cast iron columns, a doorway with a quoined surround, and a stair window. The upper floor contains sash windows.[10]
A house, at one time the town hall, it is stuccoed, on a plinth, and has a band-rusticated ground floor, a floor band, a frieze, a cornice, and a parapet with recessed panels. There are two storeys and cellars, a double-depth plan, and a symmetrical front of five bays, the middle three bays projecting. In the centre is a porch and a doorway with Ionic columns, a fanlight, a pulvinated frieze, a modillion cornice, and a blocking course. The windows are sashes with cornices on consoles. At the rear are four bays, the middle two bays projecting. In the outer bays are single-storey cantedbay windows with pierced balustrades.[11][12]
A pair of mirror-image cottages in sandstone with a stone slate roof. There are three storeys and a cellar, and in the centre are paired doorways with bonded surrounds. The windows are horizontally-sliding sashes.[13]
The farmhouse is in sandstone, partly rendered, on a plinth, with sill bands and a hipped stone slate roof. There are three storeys, a main range of three bays, a single-storey extension on the right, and a rear wing on the right with a two-storey extension. The central doorway has an architrave, a fanlight, a festoonedfrieze, and a pediment. The windows are sashes, the window over the doorway with an architrave, a festooned frieze, and a segmental pediment.[14]
A private house, later a public house, it is in sandstone, with a rusticated ground floor, a plinth, bands, a dentilledcornice, a blocking course, and a hipped Welsh slate roof. There are two storeys, a symmetrical front of three bays, and a rear wing of three storeys. On the front, the middle bay is recessed, and contain steps leading to an open porch with paired flutedDoric columns, a cornice with mutules, and a round arch containing a doorway. The outer bays contain two-storey cantedbay windows. The windows are sashes, the window above the porch with a balustrade. In the left return is another Doric porch.[15]
A smithy, later converted for residential use, it is in sandstone with a stone slate roof. It has a single storey, three bays, and a two-storey parallel range at the rear on the left. On the front is a doorway and horizontally-sliding sash windows, all with deep lintels.[16]
The former lock-up is in sandstone on a plinth, and has a stone slate roof with copedgables and kneelers. There are two storeys, and a rectangular plan. On the front is a porch with monolithicjambs, and a pediment-shaped stone hood, above which is a window. At the rear is a stair projection and a doorway.[11][17]
The mausoleum in Newhill Park is in sandstone on a plinth, with chamferedquoins, a cornice, and a stepped pyramidal sandstone roof. There is a single storey and a square plan. On each front is a round-arched recess with alternating chamfered voussoirs, and a sunken apron panel.[18][19]
The church and presbytery are built in sandstone with red tile roofs. The church consists of a nave and chancel under one roof, a north porch, a north organ chamber, and a south sacristy and confessional. On the junction of the nave and chancel is a bell turret with a spire. The porch has a doorway with a pointed arch and a hood mould, above which is a protecting crocketedniche containing a statue of Saint Joseph. Attached to the church by a passage is the presbytery, with two storeys and five bays. The boundary wall is in coped stone, and it contains gateways flanked by piers on deep plinths with shaped caps.[11][20]
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