Netherwitton Hall

Netherwitton Hall is a Grade I listed country house built in 1685, likely designed by Robert Trollop for Sir Nicholas Thornton. The house incorporates fabric from the 16th century or earlier at the rear. It features squared stone with dressings and coursed rubble on the rear, topped with a flat lead roof. The building is a rectangular block measuring 7 by 3 bays, with two earlier stair projections and various later additions at the rear.

The front elevation has three storeys, with a central part-glazed door beneath a radial fanlight, set in an archivolt and sheltered by a later Tuscan porch that has a fluted frieze and pediment. The windows are 12-pane sash types set in architraves, each floor displaying a changing rhythm with scrolled broken triangular and segmental pediments. The central first-floor window features a broken pediment that holds a sundial, which also has a similar pediment. There are four lead rainwater heads dated 1793, adorned with the initials W M and acanthus ornament. The rusticated open-arcaded parapet is topped with piers that have ball finials. The left return has similar windows but different architrave moulding, along with two trompe l'oeil windows to the right. Above the central first-floor window is a plain slab with a dogtooth surround, while the lower section to the left has a blocked circular opening. The right return is similar in style. The rear elevation is irregular, featuring a full-height stair turret that projects to the left of centre, which includes a flush-panelled door in a stone surround with a flat-pointed arch, and blocked 2-light mullioned windows. There is a renewed slab displaying the Thornton arms and the inscription ANNO REGNI EDWARD I QUINTI. To the right is a second lower stair projection and a lower block with weathering from a high-pitched roof behind, marking the site of a former Roman Catholic Chapel. To the far left, there is a block dating from around 1900.

Inside, the entrance hall contains a late 16th-century or early 17th-century fireplace, possibly re-set, along with 18th-century panelling. Several rooms feature late 17th-century panelling, some of which has been re-set. The former library showcases plasterwork from around 1770. The main stair, dating from the late 17th century, includes a stone winder stair in the eastern turret. The first-floor drawing-room has been subdivided into bedrooms, and on the second floor, there is a priest's hole located at the rear of a cupboard.