Ninewar

Ninewar is an 1848-built, two-story gabled house with an adjoining single-story service wing and stables, forming a U-plan courtyard to the west. The house is constructed of coursed pink sandstone with ashlar dressings, and chamfered arrises to window surrounds, mullions, and transoms. A raised base course is present.

The south elevation features three irregular bays. A prominent advanced gabled bay is centrally located, with a roll-moulding to the door surround and a hoodmould above, stepped over a square panel. The gable head has a tripartite window with a hoodmould, and a smaller blank panel above. A recessed gabled bay to the left is wider, with a transomed tripartite window at ground level and a tripartite window at the first floor; the gable head has a blank panel as above. The outermost right bay has windows matching the left, breaking the eaves with a dormerhead at the first floor.

The north elevation has a wide gabled bay, slightly advanced to the left, featuring a full-height, four-light canted bay swept into a jerkin gable head. Recessed panels are located below the cills, and a small square panel is present in the gable head. Other windows are detailed similarly to the south elevation. The west elevation mirrors the north elevation, lacking the central bay.

The east elevation displays an M-gable to the two-story house, adjoined by varied gabled single-story blocks to the right, and with a taller stable and hay loft block at right angles to the left. The stable block has a segmentally arched carriage door and a gabled hay loft dormer. A partly paved court has a stack with set-offs to the south gable of the main east service cottage. A similar stack is located to the left of the two-story M-gable.

The windows are mostly sash and case with a horizontal-pane glazing pattern. Decorative barge boarding with pendants adorns the gables of the main house, and timber eaves brackets are present. Grey slates cover the roof, with some decorative gutter heads retained. Polygonal ashlar stacks with moulded copings and bases are set on pedestals in pairs and triplets.

A walled garden lies to the south of the house, enclosed by high, squared rubble walls forming a rectangular space. To the northwest of the house is a gardener's cottage, which is a three-bay, single-story gabled cottage constructed from the same materials as the main house. The cottage has chamfered arrises. The entrance faces south, flanked by windows. The gables on the east and west sides are blank. The windows are sash and case with small panes, and timber eaves brackets are present. The roof is covered with grey slates. The cottage currently serves as a garden shed (since 1987). Three sets of gate piers are present; two pairs are squat, squared rubble piers with pyramid coping, one set is by the road to the northeast and the other is by the house to the east. A former main driveway, now blocked, has taller square ashlar piers with pyramid coping and adjoins rubble coped rubble quadrants.