Sue Ryder Home

NETTLEBED 5U7086 13/86 Sue Ryder Home - II Country House, now nursing home, formerly known as Joyce Grove. 1908 by C.E. Mallows for Robert Fleming. Red brick; bath stone dressings; slate roof; brick and stone stacks. Complex plan. Jacobean style. 2 storeys and attic; 13- window range. Studded and ribbed double door to left of centre, wooden hood suspended from wrought iron brackets. Central blind porch with round-headed mullion and transom windows to 3 sides. Stone cross-windows to most openings. Stone straight-sided 2-storey bay windows with mullion and transom windows to cross wings. Balustraded parapet to roof with shaped cross-gables. Gabled dormers to attic. Brick stacks of several flues, mostly to ridge. Other elevations of same style and quality. Interior: Good quality Louis XV-style panelling to most ground floor rooms. Staircase hall has Jacobean-style panelling with wooden ribbed ceiling with painted panels. Staircase is straight flight with winder. Staircase hall fireplace has stone hood with niches, supported on columns. Fireplace to main bedroom, now the Flemming Room, stone, carved with putti holding garlands. Attached stables and garage block. History: House built for Robert Fleming, merchant banker. Passed to Peter Fleming, explorer and writer, husband of Celia Johnson, actress, and brother of Ian Fleming, writer of "James Bond" novels.

Listing NGR: SU7016686585