Nevill House

House. Circa 1840. Stuccoed brick with hipped slate roof with black ridge tiles and deep eaves with cast-iron ogee gutters. Two symmetrical rebuilt brick axial stacks.

Plan: Double-depth almost square plan with two principal rooms at the front, the right-hand slightly larger, and a narrow central entrance hall between with a tight open-well staircase. At the back two smaller heated rooms, the left-hand room being the kitchen from which rises the back staircase. Between the two back rooms a back lobby and staircase to the pantry in the cellar below the front left-hand room.

Exterior: Two storeys and cellar. Symmetrical three-window front with plinth and band at first floor window sill level. Moulded stucco window architraves, the first floor with keyblocks, the ground floor with cornices on console brackets and sills with small terminal brackets. 19th-century sashes with margin panes. Central doorway with 19th-century flush panel and glazed door, small rectangular overlight, decorated iron grille under the threshold and stuccoed portico with Tuscan columns and massive entablature. The first floor window sill band continues on returns and at rear. The right-hand side has two 19th-century sashes on first floor and one on ground floor to right, those on right with 12-panes, that on left with margin panes. Left-hand side has 19th-century 12-pane sash on first floor to left and 19th-century horizontally sliding sash to basement with glazing bars and iron bars. The rear elevation has 19th-century 12-pane sashes, one at centre on first floor and to left and right on ground floor with doorway to right of centre with 19th-century flush panel door.

Interior: Most of the original interior joinery survives including panelled doors and sliding window shutters. Front right-hand room has moulded plaster cornice and marble chimneypiece. The front left-hand room has similar chimneypiece but ceiling has been replaced. Original open-well open string staircase with stick balusters, moulded mahogany handrail wreathed over ornate cast-iron newel. The rear left-hand room has large kitchen fireplace with chamfered segmental arch and bracketed shelf, the iron range having been removed. To the side of the fireplace rises the back staircase. The chimneypiece has been removed from the small rear right-hand fireplace. On the first floor the ceilings and chimneypieces in the front rooms have been replaced, but the back rooms have small simple wooden chimneypieces with ornate iron grates. The pantry in the cellar has wooden shelves and a brick floor.