Prospect House — Nunnery Road

Detached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1886, on a rectangular plan; single-bay two-storey lower return (west). Hipped slate roof with ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging rendered slate flagged eaves with cast-iron downpipes; hipped and pitched slate roof (west) with ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves with cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered quoins to corners; rendered, ruled and lined walls (west). Segmental-headed central door opening with two cut-granite steps, doorcase with pilasters supporting ogee-detailed cornice on blind frieze, and moulded rendered surround centred on keystone framing timber panelled door having oversailing overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and rendered surrounds having bull nose-detailed reveals framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed window opening in tripartite arrangement (west) with cut-granite sill, timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash window having one-over-one sidelights. Square-headed window opening (first floor) with cut-granite sill, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash window. Interior including (ground floor): central hall with timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling, staircase on a dog leg plan with balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in volute, timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled doors with timber surround to window opening framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Set in landscaped grounds on a slightly elevated site.