Dinder House

Dinder House is a small country house situated within landscaped grounds, constructed between 1799 and 1801, and potentially designed by Nicholls of Bath. Approximately 1850, outer bays were added by Vulliany, with a further single-storey addition to the north in 1929. The house is built of ashlar, with a hipped slate roof and ashlar stacks featuring moulded caps. Box dormers are present. It is an example of Regency architecture.

The symmetrical garden front has a basement level, two storeys, and an attic. The facade is arranged with a 1:1:3:1:1 bay arrangement, with the side bays stepped back slightly, and the central three bays forming a full-height segmental bow. The basement features banded rustication, banded corner pilasters, two giant Ionic pilasters between the bays, a frieze, a moulded dentil cornice, and a parapet with coping, interspersed with baluster panels. The sash windows have glazing bars set within recessed architraves, and tripartite windows are located on the ground floor, flanking the central bow; each window has a 19th-century ornamental blind box. A lead rainwater head is situated on the left side of the bow.

The entrance front is in a similar style to the garden front, with a mid-19th century distyle Ionic portico in antis; this front has banded rustication and a baluster parapet set back. The recessed segmental-headed door opening is topped by a fanlight with radiating glazing bars, above paired half-glazed doors and sidelights.

Inside, the house features an oval-shaped vestible, and curved, panelled doors within reeded surrounds, matching the wall line. The principal rooms have ornamental plasterwork. One room contains a marble chimneypiece in a reeded surround with cross banding. A geometrical stone cantilevered staircase is present, with a wreathed mahogany handrail and wrought iron balustrading. The basement kitchen contains a 19th-century cast iron range.