Netley Hall And Attached Service Buildings

Netley Hall is a country house built between 1854 and 1858 by Edward Haycock. It is constructed of red brick with rusticated quoins and stone dressings, topped with a slate roof that is concealed by an open stone balustrade over a modillioned eaves cornice and features ridge stacks. The building showcases a restrained Classical style and stands three storeys tall, with a stone cill band across each floor. It has five bays, with the central bay being stone-faced and featuring rusticated pilaster strips. The windows are all cross-paned sashes set in eared architraves on the first and second floors, and the ground floor windows have console brackets. The central entrance consists of tall eight-panel double doors with a rectangular overlight, flanked by fixed-light windows. A Tuscan porch with two pairs of columns and a moulded entablature featuring triglyphs, metopes, and guttae enhances the entrance.

The left return of the building has a full-height three-window canted bay in the center and there are six bays at the rear. To the right, a rectangular four-bay service block is set back and features a clock tower protruding from the roof, along with five glazing bar sashes at the rear. Long single-storey ranges are attached, flanking a back courtyard, with the southeastern range featuring a Doric-columned verandah facing the garden.

Inside, the central rectangular hall is illuminated by a stained glass ceiling. The long walls are adorned with Tuscan pilasters, and to the right, there is an open screen of two Tuscan columns behind which a staircase rises. The staircase has decorated cast-iron balusters and starts in one flight before returning to the first floor in two. A cast-iron balustrade on the first floor includes decorative details that highlight the dates of the house's construction (1854-1858). The interior also features mid-17th century oak panelling in a small ante-room behind the porch and in another ground-floor room to the right, which includes an elaborately carved fireplace overmantel with grotesque figures, believed to have come from a house in Greet that was demolished in the 1920s.