Netley Hall And Attached Service Buildings

SJ 40 SE CONDOVER C.P. -

9/41 Netley Hall and attached - service buildings (formerly 29.1.52 listed as Netley Hall in the Parish of Stapleton) - II

Country house. 1854-8 by Edward Haycock. Red brick with rusticated quoins and stone dressings; slate roof concealed by open stone balustrade over modillioned eaves cornice, ridge stacks. Restrained Classical style. 3 storeys with stone cill band across each floor; 5 bays, central bay stone- faced with rusticated pilaster strips; windows all cross-paned sashes in eared architraves to first and second floors and with console brackets to ground floor; central entrance, tall 8-panel double doors with rectangular overlight flanked by fixed-light windows; Tuscan porch with 2 pairs of columns and moulded entablature of triglyphs, metopes and guttae. Left. return of 3 bays has full-height 3-window canted bay to centre; 6 bays to rear. Rectangular 4-bay service block set back to right has clock tower protruding from roof, 5 glazing bar sashes to rear: long single-storey ranges attached, flanking back courtyard, the south-eastern one with Doric- columned verandah behind, facing garden. Interior: central rectangular hall lit by stained glass ceiling; Tuscan pilasters to long walls and to right an open screen of 2 Tuscan columns, behind which rises a staircase, with decorated cast-iron balusters, starting in one flight and returning to the first floor in 2; cast-iron balustrade to first floor with the dates of the building of the house (1854-8) picked out in the decorative details; mid-C17 oak panelling in small ante-room behind porch and more in another ground-floor room to right, including an elaborately carved fireplace overmantel with grotesque figures, said to come from the house at Greet (near Tenbury Wells), demolished in 1920s. B.O.E. p. 216.

Listing NGR: SJ4732201793