Scott House

Scott House is a nursing home built in the 1930s, designed in a modern interpretation of the Arts and Crafts style. The building is asymmetrical in layout, resembling an "E" shape, with steeply pitched roofs and gables. It is two and a half storeys high. The exterior is mainly pebble-dashed with a brick plinth, topped with slate roofs and decorative red sandstone details, including moulded stacks. The windows are wooden casements with small panes, featuring dripstones; those on the lower level have stone transoms, with top-hung upper lights. Several advanced gabled bays project from the main facade, the right-hand bay projecting further with a sharply asymmetrical gable. The central bay contains the main entrance, featuring a Tudor-arched doorway framed by red sandstone, sheltered by a square hoodmould and housing double ribbed wooden doors. The first floor above the porch has a four-light window, topped by a sandstone string course leading to the gable, which incorporates a square sandstone tablet with the stylised initials "JS". The gable also includes pronounced kneelers and red sandstone coping, with a single light in the attic. Dormers with hipped roofs, wide boarded eaves, and small two-light casements are positioned on each side of the porch bay. The windows are arranged asymmetrically across the facade; to the left of the porch are two-light windows on the far left and four-light windows to the right, while to the right of the porch, a pair of three-light windows is joined by a four-light window flanked by single lights on the first floor. The advanced gabled bay on the left end has four-light windows on the ground and first floors, and a two-light window in the attic. The advanced gable bay to the right has eaves projecting to the left over a four-centred-arched walkway, which forms part of a three-bay arcade with red sandstone arches on roughcast piers; the central and right-hand bays contain three-light windows. The first floor of this arcade has a four-light window, and the attic a two-light window. A further arcade is found on the left face of the walkway; the inner side has a doorway to the left, and a Tudor-arched window to the right. The west end has a gable flanked by chimney stacks, containing a narrow doorway with a Tudor-arched head under a hoodmould, and a sidelight to its right. The first floor has a six-light window, and the attic a two-light window. To the right, the side of the projecting front bay has a single light on each storey. To the far left is a recessed range with a five-light canted bay window. The east end has a gable, offset to the right, with a three-light window on the ground floor, a seven-light window on the first floor, and a two-light window in the attic. A stack is positioned to the left, in the angle with the projecting bay. The east side of the projecting bay features a stack and an attic dormer to its right, over a two-light window. The ground floor has a four-centred-arched opening and a three-light window. The rear of the house is not visible. The interior has not been inspected.