Nettleden House

Nettleden House is a parsonage that has been converted into a private residence. It was built in 1856 by Lady Marion Alford and her son John William Spencer, the 2nd Earl Brownlow, who was an amateur architect. The house is constructed of red brick in English bond, with blue brick detailing on the south front and buff brick used for the raised quoins and dressings around the openings. The windows are made of stone and there is a chamfered plinth that is offset. The steep roofs are covered in brown tiles, which are banded with scalloped tiles.

This large two-storey house is designed in a Free Jacobean style and is set in terraced gardens that overlook the village to the north. To the west, there are gabled stables that are one and a half storeys high, which are now linked to the main house. A linking garage block is present but is not of special interest.

The south front features three gables above the first-floor stone windows, which are mullioned. There is a semi-octagonal stone bay window on the left-hand side and a buttress situated between two three-light stone windows that are both mullioned and transomed. The wooden sliding sashes are set between the mullions, and there is a stone string course running along the façade. Tall, twisted, grouped moulded brick chimney shafts with spurred caps rise from the roof.

The porch, located in the southwest corner of the house, has arched openings and a battened door. Above the entrance, there is a terra cotta plaque featuring a 'B' and a coronet, along with the date '1856'. A large carved stone armorial achievement projects from the southwest corner of the south front. The house was built to accommodate Reverend G.S. Cautley, who was formerly a tutor to the Earl Brownlow, and the construction cost was £2,657.14s.5d.