Nazareth House

Nazareth House is a house built in 1817 by John Dobson for Captain Dutton, with later additions from the 19th century. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar with a plinth and features a roof made of Welsh slate and small graduated slates. The building has an H-plan layout, consisting of two storeys with ten irregular bays and three wide bays.

The entrance wing, which projects forward to the right, has a tetrastyle Roman Doric porch. This porch includes a late 19th-century half-glazed door on the left and a sash window on the right. The left wing, which also breaks forward, and the central section with five windows, all feature plain sash windows with flat stone lintels, as well as floor and sill bands and an eaves gutter cornice. The hipped, low-pitched roofs are topped with corniced ashlar chimneys.

A notable feature is the high dome with spiked railings on a conical roof located in the entrance wing. The right side of the building has a central bow with two sash windows and a left curved glazed door leading to an octagonal arcaded conservatory. The rear also has a similar bow with a half-conical roof and a lead ball finial.

Inside, the house showcases a round domed stairwell with an iron balustrade and a wreathed handrail leading to a cantilevered circular stair. There are high-quality marble chimney pieces with cast-iron grates, architraves on eight-panelled doors, and stucco ceiling mouldings featuring Greek-key and egg-and-dart designs. One room at the rear right includes a classical window case, a similar alcove, a lugged architrave on the door, and a modillioned stucco cornice.

Historically, the house was originally known as Villa Real and later as Sandyford Park.