Nunwick Hall And Ranges Around Service Court

Nunwick Hall is a country house and associated service court ranges dating to approximately 1745-52, likely designed by Daniel Garrett for Lancelot Allgood. Contemporary interior plasterwork was undertaken by Philip Daniel, with alterations and additions around 1829 by Ignatius Bonomi, including an entrance porch and dining room bay. A later, mid-19th century addition heightened the east range of the service court. The building is constructed of tooled sandstone ashlar with graduated green slate roofs and ashlar chimneys.

The main block is a three-storey, five-bay structure with a south (entrance) front featuring a plinth and sill band. It contains a pair of doors with a fanlight and side lights, set behind a tetrastyle Roman Doric porch. The windows are 12-pane sashes, with square 6-pane sashes on the second floor, all within architraves. A pedimented window on the first floor, flanked by sashes featuring pulvinated friezes and cornices, sits within a splayed architrave with a balustraded apron. The building has an eaves cornice and a hipped roof with two ridge stacks. The east return is similar, with elongated ground-floor windows, and a two-storey, canted dining-room bay added in a matching style. A Venetian stair window is located on a recessed three-bay section of the west return, with a single-storey, two-bay link on the rear side connecting to the service court.

The service court consists of four ranges surrounding a central courtyard on the north-east corner of the main block. The south range features a single-storey, three-bay central section with a pedimented doorway, flanked by 12-pane sashes in architraves. A clock tower rises from the ridge, topped with a cupola on an arcade of eight Tuscan columns. Flanking these are two-storey, three-bay pedimented pavilions, with 12-pane sashes within architraves and niches incorporating 6-pane sashes above; they have a hipped roof. The east range has been altered, with a wide two-storey, three-bay centre and projecting, pedimented end bays. A central Venetian doorway and Venetian windows in the end bays are recessed beneath round arches, while other windows are 12-pane sashes, all under a hipped roof. The north and west ranges, linked by a segmental archway, have also been altered and contain boarded doors and sashes.

The interior remains unseen but is noted to contain high-quality contemporary plasterwork and chimney pieces, as described in referenced publications. A lean-to shed on the west range and a later 19th-century addition on the north range of the service court are not considered to be of particular architectural interest.