Netheravon House

Netheravon House is a large villa and hunting box, currently serving as the officer's mess for the Support Weapons Training Wing. It was constructed after 1734 for Henry Somerset, Duke of Beaufort, on the site of a Roman villa. The building was extended in 1791 by John Soane for M. Hector Beach. It is made of brick with tiled roofs and features three storeys and a cellar, arranged in a double pile plan with an entrance hall and staircase flanked by main reception rooms on the south front. The central entrance has a door with an Ionic portico and glazed sides. The windows are twelve-pane sashes with gauged brick heads and raised stone keys, and there is a stone plat band between the ground and first floors, along with a stone cornice and a brick parapet. A six-panelled door is set in an eared architrave. The house bears a sun fire mark No 655933. The 1791 extension at the rear has three bays and three storeys, with single-storey side rooms that were extended upwards in the early 20th century. Some windows are false. A sinuous Tuscan colonnade connects the house to the stables and has rooms at the back.

Inside, the large entrance hall features a fine dogleg staircase with three turned balusters on each tread. The flanking rooms are fully panelled with a chair-rail and good plaster cornices, with the muntins raised above the panels. The fireplaces were replaced around the 1930s. The northeast room has only a cornice and an inlaid marble fireplace. The first-floor rooms on the south front are also panelled with cornices. Soane's addition includes a plain secondary stair and one room on each floor, with the ground floor now serving as a mess room. The attics contain the servants' quarters, which are boarded. The house was originally built for coursing and hawking, and the grounds were designed by Thomas Wright, as published in Universal Architecture in 1755 and 1758.