Nunton House

Nunton House is a large house dating to around 1720, built for the Batt family. It is constructed of brick, with a header bond pattern on the front elevation, Flemish bond on the sides and rear, and has a tiled roof with coped verges and brick gable end stacks. The building is arranged in an L-shape. It has two storeys, a basement, and an attic, with a symmetrical front of seven windows.

The central three bays are approached by steps leading to a front door with six fielded panels, brass fittings, and a segmental pediment supported by engaged Tuscan columns. Flanking the door are two narrow eight-pane sashes, and further bays contain two twelve-pane sashes. The first floor features a central twelve-pane sash with a shouldered architrave, flanked by eight-pane sashes, with two twelve-pane sashes to the sides. A pediment sits over the central three bays, supported by giant pilasters, with similar pilasters flanking the sides of the front elevation. There is a modillioned cornice and parapet above. Four hipped dormers are set into the roof. The basement has six two-light casements. All windows are topped with flat brick arches and stone keystones.

The left and right returns have two narrow eight-pane sashes to both the ground and first floors; the left return also has a basement door with a pediment and a sash window to its right. Lead rainwater heads are positioned along the side gutters. The rear of the main range includes a three-storey stair turret with a two-light leaded casement to each floor. To the right of the turret is a round-arched stair window.

A two-storey, two-window service wing, dating to the 18th century, extends to the rear, connecting the main range with Lower Nunton Farmhouse. The service wing's ground floor has a nine-pane sash and a casement, while the first floor has two twelve-pane sashes and a hipped dormer containing a casement.

Internally, original features include a newel staircase with turned balusters, dados with a bolection rail, fielded panelling above and below, classically moulded ceiling cornices, and doors with fielded panels and cornices. The ground floor has Regency fireplace surrounds with reeded pilasters and an anthemion frieze. Some fittings, including door and window architraves, and plasterwork in the drawing room, are believed to be early 20th-century additions. The design of Nunton House is similar to that of No. 68 The Close in Salisbury, built around 1718.