Netherton Hall

Netherton Hall is a gentleman’s residence, now divided into two separate dwellings. It was built around 1775 for the Perkins family. The building is constructed of ashlar stone, with stone slate roofs, except for the left wing which has a tiled roof. It is arranged with a three-bay main house of three storeys, and single-bay, two-storey flanking wings, creating a symmetrical facade.

The garden front features windows in slightly projecting full-height panels to bays one and three, which support a pediment. The central bay is recessed and features a round arch within the tympanum of the pediment. The main entrance is a four-panel door with an architrave and triangular pediment, above a decorative overlight. To either side are two-storey, three-light canted bows with twelve-pane sashes, and Diocletian windows to the second floor. The first and second floors of the central bay have single-light twelve-pane sashes. The building includes ground-and first-floor sill bands, and a moulded eaves cornice. A blind quatrefoil is within the tympanum. The side wings are set back; the left wing incorporates two late 20th-century garage doors, and a small single-light window on the first floor. The right wing also has later alterations, except for the original window on the ground floor’s left side, which was formerly a door. Gable stacks are present on all but the right wing.

The rear elevation is also symmetrical, with a central doorway above which is a full-height staircase window with a round-arched head and sash glazing. Large two-light windows are present on each side, with twelve-pane sashes to the ground and first floors. The side wings have corresponding two-light windows and a door.

Inside, a longitudinal corridor forms a single-bay hall at the front and a single-bay stair-hall at the rear. The dog-leg staircase has slender, turned balusters, a ramped moulded handrail, and moulded tread ends. A transverse central corridor connects the service wings which historically housed the servants' stairs. Six-panel doors, fireplaces in the principal rooms, and window shutters are present. The front bays have vertically-sliding window shutters concealed within compartments below the sills. The building’s design reflects a segregation of status through the use of separate servants' stairs.