Nantinan House

Detached three-bay two-storey over basement country house, built in 1858, having slightly recessed entrance bay to centre with portico to front (south) elevation. Five-bay two-storey block to east. Hipped slate roof having overhanging eaves with render brackets and rendered chimneystacks. Pitched slate roof to east block having rendered chimneystacks. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with rusticated render quoins and limestone plinth course. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls to east block. Square-headed openings to end bays, first floor having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills, those to ground floor with tripartite four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows and flanking two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with render surrounds and limestone sills. Segmental-headed opening to centre bay, first floor having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and flanking square-headed openings with six-over-six timber sliding sash windows, all with limestone sills. Square-headed openings to rear, first floor having six-over-six timber sliding sash windows, those to ground floor with four-over-four pane timber sliding sash widows. Square-headed openings to west elevation, ground floor having tripartite four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows and flanking two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with render surrounds and limestone sills. Square-headed openings to east block, first floor having three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Square-headed openings to ground floor with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Portico comprising Ionic-style columns and Doric style pilasters supporting render architrave and entablature. Square-headed opening having render surround and half-glazed double-leaf timber panelled doors with flanking square-headed openings having render surrounds and four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows. Limestone steps and geometric tiles to portico. Square-headed opening to east block, rear elevation with render surround and timber battened door. Limestone steps with carved walls to south garden. Pair of square-profile ashlar limestone piers having carved caps with ball finials and double-leaf wrought-iron gates having floral motifs, dating to the eighteenth century. Sweeping lined-and-ruled rendered walls having limestone copings, pointed arch pedestrian openings with wrought-iron single-leaf cast-iron gates, round-headed niches having render roll mouldings and limestone sills terminating in second pair of square-profile limestone piers.