Blunt House

Blunt House is a house that has been converted into a clinic, built around 1886 by J.M. Oldrid Scott for his own use. It is designed in the Neo-Georgian style and constructed from brown brick with red brick dressings. The building features plain tiled hipped roofs with two stone-banded ridge stacks located to the left and right of the center. It has two storeys and an attic, which is adorned with five hipped roof dormers. The outer and central dormers have glazing bar sash windows set in architrave surrounds, while the dormers to the left and right of the center contain casement windows.

A large flat tile-hung roof extension is positioned above the connecting stacks. The house has five bays, with the end bays projecting and featuring a brick string course over the ground floor and dentilled eaves. The glazing bar sash windows are set beneath gauged brick heads, and there are stone keystones above the double light sash windows on either side of the first floor center. The ground floor features paired, round-arched windows.

The central entrance has a part-glazed door with wooden tracery bars and fielded panels behind double outer doors. This door is framed by an architrave surround with voussoirs at the top, leading into a porch made of bonded block rusticated stone, supported by Doric columns and a frieze with guttae, topped with four spherical finials. Access to the porch is via a flight of four steps, flanked by quadrant walls that feature obelisks. To the left, there is a three-bay lower range with a mix of casement and sash window styles, along with a single-storey extension at the extreme left.

At the rear, the house has seven bays, with the end two bays projecting on each side. It features five hipped roof sash window dormers, a brick string course over the ground floor, and brick panels below the windows. A balustraded stone terrace runs across the front of the ground floor.

Inside, the house boasts fine 18th-century fireplace surrounds with marble Ionic columns and broken pediments, as well as plaster ceilings decorated with foliage and scrollwork. Rich modillion overdoors and door surrounds are also present. Many of the internal features were relocated from the original Blunt House in Croydon, which was built around 1760 by Abraham Swan and Richard Peers, and served as the model for J.M. Oldrid Scott's design.