Melrose House Nursing Home

Melrose House Nursing Home is a former vicarage, now a house, dated 1848 and enlarged in 1873, likely designed by G T Andrews for the Hon Payan Dawnay of Beningbrough Hall. The building is constructed of brick in English garden wall bond with ashlar dressings and a stone slate roof. It has two storeys and a south front featuring three bays, with the right bay projecting. The façade includes a chamfered plinth and quoins. The pointed-arch doorway has a chamfered, quoined surround beneath a stopped hoodmould, with a head over the keystone and a double board door featuring decorative iron hinges. The left and right bays each have a three-trefoil-headed light window, while above, there are two-light windows, with a trefoil-headed light in the right bay and others with shouldered arches. All windows are set in quoined surrounds. The right bay is gabled, with the apex displaying a heraldic shield and a scroll inscribed with the date and 'PD' (Payan Dawnay). The building has a ridge stack.

The left return has three bays, with the outer bays gabled. The ground-floor windows feature trefoil-headed lights, while the first floor has shouldered-arch lights. The first bay is gabled and includes a two-storey canted bay window under a semi-pyramidal roof with a gabled window. The central bay has a three-light window on each floor, and the third bay is also gabled, featuring a three-light window with a two-light window above and a quatrefoil in the apex. The eaves oversail, and there are ridge stacks and one at the left end. The right return has windows in the same style, and a projecting wing on the right has an external stack with offsets.

Inside, there is a dog-leg staircase with plain balusters, original fireplaces with cast-iron grates, and decorative surrounds.