Nether Swell Manor And Gatepiers Attached To North East Corner

A country house, built in 1903, with additions in 1906 and 1909 by E Guy Dawber for Sir John Scott. The house is constructed of uncoursed rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, and has Cotswold stone roofs with coped verges. Gables feature cut finials. The design is of an irregular plan, free Jacobean style, with irregular gables and planes to the south east. It is two and a half storeys high. The entrance front is roughly ten bays wide, featuring mullion windows with transoms on the ground floor, a string course on part of the ground floor, and drips over other ground floor windows. The projecting left-hand block of 1909 has a first-floor oriel. An angle bay link connects the left-hand and centre blocks. The central block has an ashlar fronted porch with a Doric arch, an ashlar entry on the ground floor with a panelled door in a 17th-century manner, and rusticated Doric details to the first floor including a jewel frieze and open balustrade. A three-storey crenellated tower connects to the right-hand block, at whose furthest extremity are a pair of large ball-capped gatepiers. The southwest front forms a balanced composition with two gables over two-storey angled bays with shaped parapets and mullion and transom windows. A slight central break features three diagonally-set chimneys, and on the ground floor there is a large niche with an open pediment and statue. Bullseye lights are set in the gables. Smaller gables are present on the rear, and a small courtyard is included, with a tile-hung and angled stair-turret in the corner. Inside, there is an early 17th-century style staircase; the drawing room has Louis XVI decoration including painted over-door panels, and a large room on the ground floor of the 1909 block features rich cornice plasterwork by Marcel Boulenger.