Nutshell House

Nutshell House is a three-storey building constructed in red brick, laid in Flemish bond, with limestone dressings, slate roofs, and brick stacks. The house has a rectangular plan with a canted east end and a lean-to range to the south.

The east end features sash windows in the central facet, all with stone lintels. The ground and middle floors have six-over-six sashes, while the upper floor has a three-over-three pane sash. The canted corners are accentuated by alternating stone quoins, and plain stone bands mark the floor levels. The roof is hipped at the east end. On the north side, which faces the towpath, there is a blocked doorway with a six-over-six sash to its right, and a single sash window on the upper floors, each with a brick flat arch. This side also has a brick chimney mounted at the eaves. The south side, which opens to the garden, has a partially open-fronted lean-to on the ground floor. The middle floor features two six-over-six sashes in openings with keyed gauged brick arches, and 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 on the upper floor.

The interior has not been inspected, but sources suggest that the staircases are plain, and the doors leading to the landings are also plain, with mouldings on the inner faces. Fireplaces are reported to survive in all the rooms.