Nelson Court

Nelson Court is a rectory designed by Henry Woodyer between 1869 and 1871, built in 1873 (as confirmed by the dated rainwater heads) as the rectory for All Saints Church, which was designed by the same architect. The building was later subdivided into flats.

The house is an asymmetrical Gothic style structure of two storeys with attics. The ground floor is built in red brick laid in Flemish bond, while the upper floors are hung with alternate courses of plain and curved tiles. The roof is plain tiled with tall clustered brick chimneystacks.

The south-west or entrance front has four windows. A central gabled dormer contains a 20th-century window. The first floor features an original mullioned and transomed casement window, two smaller original casements, and a central 20th-century 16-pane wooden window lighting the staircase hall. The ground floor has similar windows and a doorcase set beneath a later penticed hood supported on large wooden brackets with a stone corbel, featuring a plank door with elaborate ironmongery. A brick bracket cornice divides the floors, and there is a plinth. An original brick lean-to to the left has one original window and one 20th-century top-opening sash window, with a decayed stone shield.

The south-east side has a central massive brick chimneystack positioned between two gables. The attic windows here are 20th-century replacements. The left side first floor window is a 20th-century 3-light replacement, while the right side window is probably original. The ground floor has an original 3-light mullioned and transomed casement.

The north-west or garden front features a tall chimneystack to the right side and a central gabled dormer with a 20th-century casement. The first floor has two windows: the left is a 20th-century 3-light casement and the right is an original 3-light casement. The ground floor to the left has a large square bay with diaper pattern in grey brickwork and a hipped tiled roof, with casement windows to the side and a massive original mullioned and transomed window, though the central top light has been modified to open and the central lower light has been modified to provide outside access. The ground floor right side has an original 4-light mullioned and transomed window. The original lean-to to the right has three small lancet windows in the upper part and an original 4-light casement window to the ground floor. The north-west elevation terminates in a service end with two gables, each containing ribbed brick chimneystacks. The first floor left has an original casement and the right side gable has a later pivoting sash. A projecting central gable and ground floor lean-tos feature a gabled dormer with two original casement windows and a doorcase with a plank door incorporating an adjoining casement and four lights over.

Internally, the staircase hall retains a moulded wooden cornice and a well staircase with gallery and balustrading reported to have trefoil cutouts and pendants. The hall features six panelled doors and a multi-coloured tiled floor. Wooden shutters survive to the ground floor rooms. The service end retains a straight flight service staircase with solid plank balustrading with chamfered newel posts, a set of 19th-century service bells, and plank doors. The ground floor corridors retain original multi-coloured tiled floors.