Nutshell House

MATERIALS: the house is constructed from red brick, laid in Flemish bond, with limestone dressings, slate roofs and brick stacks.

PLAN: the house is rectangular on plan with a canted east end, and a lean-to range to the south.

EXTERIOR: the building is of three storeys. The east end has sash windows to the central facet, all with stone lintels; those to the ground and middle floors are six-over-six sashes, and there is a three-over-three pane sash to the upper floor. The canted corners have alternating stone quoins, and there are plain stone bands marking the floor levels. The roof is hipped at the east end. The north side, onto the towpath, has a blocked doorway with a six-over-six sash to its right; and there is a single sash to the upper floors, each with a brick flat arch. This side also has an eaves-mounted brick chimney. The south side to the garden, has a partially open-fronted lean-to to the ground floor. The middle floor has two six-over-six sashes in openings with keyed gauged brick arches; there is a single six-over-six upper floor sash, under a stone lintel. The west side is gabled, with a brick gable-end stack and a blocked round-arched opening to the upper floor.

INTERIOR: not inspected, but sources indicate that the staircases are plain, and the doors are plain to the landings, with mouldings to the inner faces. There are fireplaces surviving in all the rooms.