Mortimer House

Mortimer House is a house that has been converted into a nursing home. It was built around 1760 and altered in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed from limestone ashlar and features gable stacks and a slate hipped roof. It has a double-depth plan and is designed in a mid-Georgian style, standing three storeys tall with a basement and a nine-window range.

The symmetrical front of the house includes a parapeted single-storey flanking wing on either side, which rises to two storeys further back. The central three-window section projects forward. The ground floor is rusticated and features a plat band, a first-floor sill band, and quoins above leading to a modillion cornice, with a parapet and pediment at the centre. The doorway is framed by a Gibbs surround with three large keys, a bracketed cornice, and an eight-panel door, with the top pair being glazed. The ground-floor windows have large keys and architraves above with sill blocks, and they are fitted with horned plate-glass sashes.

To the right, there is an early 19th-century block that is set back and rendered, featuring two semicircular-arched doorways with imposts and keys, a blocked ground-floor window, and cambered heads above two first-floor six-over-six pane sashes. The symmetrical rear elevation has canted full-height bays from the mid-19th century at each end.

Inside, the house retains many mid-19th-century details, including an entrance hall with a stained-glass screen, a rear open-well staircase with column balusters, a curtail and wreathed rail, plaster panels on the walls, a modillion cornice, and marble surrounds to cast-iron fireplaces. The design of Mortimer House is closely modeled on Clifton Hill House, which was built between 1746 and 1750.