Nether Hall

This is a house, now used as offices, dating from the early to mid-18th century, with alterations from the early 19th century and substantial 20th-century additions. It is stucco-faced with painted ashlar dressings, and has a Westmorland slate roof. Originally designed in an L-shape, the main range features a central hallway entrance. The building is two storeys high with attics, and has a five-bay front elevation, arranged as 2:1:2, with a nine-bay return on the right side, and a 20th-century block to the left of the main facade that is of no particular architectural interest.

The front facade has a plinth and rusticated quoins. Steps lead up to a wide four-columned Doric portico with a Tuscan frieze incorporating guttae and a modillioned cornice. The original central doorcase is set within a raised surround, featuring double-panelled doors with an ovolo moulded inner edge, above a plain overlight. Narrow, small-pane windows flank the doorcase, with projecting sills, and Ionic pilasters. Two unequally hung fifteen-pane sash windows are on either side of the portico, also with raised surrounds and ovolo moulded inner edges. On the first floor, there are four similar windows and a central tripartite window with twenty and ten-pane sashes, all within similar surrounds. All windows have inserted stone sills. A substantial moulded stone cornice slightly projects over the quoins.

The roof is hipped, with three dormers containing sashes. A brick ridge stack and a side wall stack are visible on the left. The right return has a projecting two-storey canted bay window to the left, three central bays, and a projecting early to mid-18th-century three-bay wing to the right, with rusticated quoins. The canted bay window has unequally hung fifteen-pane sashes with projecting sills on each face and floor. The central bays contain three 20th-century casements on the ground floor, and one ten-pane and two differently sized fifteen-pane sashes on the first floor. The earlier wing has a 20th-century casement and a door on the ground floor. Above, there are three 20th-century windows in raised surrounds characteristic of the early to mid-18th century, featuring keystone bead moulded inner edges and moulded sills.

The rear elevation of this wing has rusticated quoins and a moulded cornice that slightly projects over the quoins; it contains no original openings.

The interior includes a fine hall with dado panelling and a screen of Ionic columns in antis. There is a raised and fielded panelled door in an architrave with a pulvinated frieze to the cornice above. A magnificent imperial staircase features barley twist on vase balusters, a ramped moulded handrail, panelled cheekpieces, and a panelled dado to the opposite wall. The landing has Ionic columned screens to the sides of the staircase (likely early 20th century) and a pedimented doorcase to a front room. A council chamber in the rear wing has good early 20th-century panelling and a domed ceiling light.