Nancegollan House Adjoining Entrance Gateway Walls And Gate Piers

Nancegollan House is a house, possibly originally an account house with a farmhouse addition, dating to the early 19th century. It is situated alongside entrance gateway walls and gate piers. The house is constructed of painted killas with dressed granite quoins, sills and lintels, with a granite ashlar entrance bay. The original part has a hipped scantle slate roof with brick chimneys, while the farmhouse addition features a lower hipped asbestos slate roof with a brick chimney on one side. Cast-iron ogee gutters are present.

The building has a two-bay-deep plan, with two rooms wide, and a two-room-wide farmhouse added to the rear. A through or cross passage connects to an axial passage leading to a doorway on the left (east) side of the farmhouse. The chimney layout suggests that only the front of the original section was originally heated, and that the first-floor rooms may have been, or still are, used as offices or for board meetings. The house is now combined into a single dwelling.

The north entrance front has two bays and one window. The central entrance bay is a centrepiece of granite ashlar, projecting slightly, with a plinth, mid-floor string, and an open pediment. Within the tympanum is the round fanlight head of a tall original sash window. A wide central doorway has a pair of three-panel doors, designed to resemble a six-panel door, with flush beaded bottom panels, fielded middle panels, glazed top panels, and a rectangular overlight with spoked marginal panes. The flanking bays are blind, except for a two-light casement window at ground floor on the left. The left-hand side wall has original 16-pane hornless sashes towards the rear, a smaller horizontal sliding sash towards the front, and a later four-pane sash replacement above. The symmetrical right-hand wall, overlooking the approach lane, has three tall ground floor windows and two smaller, closer-spaced first-floor windows. All windows are original 12-pane hornless sashes, except for a horned copy on the ground floor left. Ground and first floor windows on the far right are set into the side wall of the later addition. There is no straight joint between the two parts of the house on this side, likely due to the original rear corner being rebuilt to accommodate the chimney.

The rear of the property functions as the farmhouse front, exhibiting a symmetrical three-window façade with a central doorway, shallow brick arches over openings, granite sills, original 16-pane hornless sashes, and 20th-century glazed double doors. The interior has not been inspected. The house is one of several ‘count’ houses within the parish.