Gate Piers On Main Drive, Netherwood House

Walter Newall. Early 19th century. Symmetrical 2-storey 5-bay bow-fronted country house, single storey flanking wings joined by narrow linking bays. Painted ashlar. West elevation: shallow advanced bows to outer bays each 2 bays, with rusticated quoins; central bay with recessed panelled door, fanlight and sidelight, behind shallow Roman Doric screen. All sash and case windows with 12-paned glazing pattern. 1st floor cill band. Cornice; blocking course over inner bay; end stacks; piended slate roof, curved over bows. Wings each with intersecting tracery in linking bays; 4-bay flanks. Roman-Doric columned shelters on east elevation link central projection to wings.

Interior: cantilevered stair with decorative cast-iron balusters, and lit by cupola; panelled doors in architraves. Gatepiers on drive: (possibly not in original setting) hollow square cast-iron piers with cross-braced ties in lattice pattern and ball-finialed pyramidal caps. Gates and railings also have lattice pattern; former have urn finials. Gatepiers at lodge: corniced round gatepiers linked by curved low quadrant walls (railings removed from latter); all painted ashlar; ball finials removed from tall inner piers; remaining piers with domed caps.