Nettleden House

TL 01 SW NETTLEDEN WITH NETTLEDEN POTTEN END (North side)

3/214 Nettleden House - (Formerly listed as Nettleden)

GV II

Parsonage, now a private house. 1856 by Lady Marion Alford jointly with her son John William Spencer, 2nd Earl Brownlow, an amateur architect. Red brick in English-bond, diapered in blue brick on S front, buff brick raised quoins and dressings to openings with stone windows and chamfered plinth offset. Steep brown tiled roofs banded with scalloped tiles. A large 2-storeys house in a Free Jacobean Style set in terraced gardens overlooking the village from the N. Gabled 1½-storeys stables a little to W now linked to main house. Linking garage block not of special interest. S front has 3 gables over mullioned stone windows to 1st floor, semi-octagonal stone mullioned bay window on LH and buttress between 2 3-lights mullioned and transomed stone windows. Wooden sliding sashes set between mullions. Stone string course. Tall twisted grouped moulded brick chimney shafts with spurred caps. Arched openings to porch recessed in SW corner of house with battened door. Terra cotta plaque over entrance with 'B' and coronet over and '1856'. Large carved stone armorial achievement projects at SW corner of S front. Built to house Rev G.S. Cautley formerly tutor to the Earl Brownlow. Cost £2657.14s.5d. (VCH (1908) 317: Pevsner (1977) 258: inf from Mrs. Jean Simpson).

Listing NGR: TL0212610548