Netherton House

Netherton House is a large country house dating from 1901, designed by Thomson and Sandilands in the Arts and Crafts style. It is an irregular-plan building with two storeys, characterised by deep bracketed eaves, timber mullioned windows, oriel windows, prominent chimney stacks, and a mixture of red-tiled piended, gabled, and jerkin-headed roofs. The exterior is finished with white painted roughcast render.

The house is sprawling, with stepped elevations on each side and a single-storey, piend-roofed service wing extending from the west corner. The main front door is a two-leaf timber-boarded construction with strap hinges, set within a round-arched brick architrave with a gabled lobby projecting forward from the centre of the northeast elevation; a swept-roof section behind features a five-light dormer window. To the right of the main entrance is an advanced gable with small windows at ground level and a large oriel window beneath a bracketed jerkin-headed roof at the first floor. A recessed section extends to the outer right, while a two-bay section to the left has tripartite mullioned windows at ground level and canted, gabled, oriel windows above. The southeast (garden) elevation has two five-light mullioned windows at ground level, with a bracketed first floor above, featuring a jerkin-headed gable to the left bay, flanked by a small turret to the left and a bowed oriel to the right. A terracotta date stone is found above a round-arched glazed garden door on the left return. A large piend-roofed section extends from the centre of the southwest elevation, creating a courtyard on each side. A two-storey projecting mullioned window is prominent on the southeast side of the courtyard, while a southwest-facing section features an oriel inglenook with a prominent stack, and a canted window is found in the northwest re-entrant angle at the first floor. A 20th century conservatory occupies the west courtyard. The irregular fenestration continues to the northwest (rear) elevation, which incorporates a half-glazed timber-boarded back door.

The windows are predominantly timber casements with a variety of plate glass, leaded, and small-pane glazing; some small-pane glazing is also found in timber sash and case windows. Tall, coped, rendered wallhead and ridge stacks are topped with red clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are fitted, including some semicircular hoppers. The roof is covered with red Rosemary tiles.

The interior, which was inaccessible in 2005, was reported in a sales brochure to include original fireplaces (some with excellent Arts and Crafts tile work), timber panelling, and plate racks, none of which are believed to have been removed. A glazed timber lobby door with leaded side lights leads to a lobby with black and white tiled flooring.

To the southeast of the house, a red brick terrace with gatepiers and steps leading to a lawn is situated.