Netherstowe House (North) Netherstowe House (South)

LICHFIELD

SK11SW NETHERSTOWE LANE, Stowe 1094-1/1/249 (North side (off)) 04/03/74 Netherstowe House (North) and Netherstowe House (South) (Formerly Listed as: STOWE Nether Stowe)

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Mill and house, now 2 houses. Probably late C17 or early C18 with north range, mill owner's house, of c1800 or earlier. Brick with some dressed stone; tile roofs with brick stacks. 2 parallel ranges. North range of 3 storeys; 4-window range. Top frieze of applied timber-frame and hipped roof. Entrance to left of centre has overlight with decorative glazing bars to 6-panel door. Windows have sills, and rubbed brick flat arches over 12-pane sashes, but ground floor left end window is partly blocked with narrow sash; 2nd floor windows have 6-pane casement and three 6-pane sashes. Lateral stack, cross-axial stack and right return lateral stack. Left return has some blocked segmental-headed openings, entrance, narrow window with cross-casement, and canted bay window to ground floor, and altered cross-casement and 12-pane sash to 1st floor; projecting gable end of south range has stone ground floor with partly covered buttress to angle, and 3-light transomed casement to ground floor. South range of 2 storeys and two 3-window ranges, that to left taller; stone footings. Windows have sills. Range to left has projecting ground floor with 2 windows with 12-pane sashes and glazed angle porch to entrance with panelled doorcase with cornice and 6-panel door, window with 12-pane sash to right; 1st floor has 3-light small-paned casements. Range to right has 2-light small-paned casements to ground floor and similar 3-light casements to 1st floor. Left return has C20 projection to cellar level. INTERIOR: north range has some C19 fireplaces and dogleg staircase with twisted balusters; south range has cellars. The mill became a woollen manufactory in 1809, by 1827 it produced carpets and knitting yarn, the former an important Lichfield industry, and by 1850 it produced lace and silk coach trimmings. (Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade M W: Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.123).

Listing NGR: SK1246210941