Netherton House

Thomson and Sandilands, dated 1901. 2-storey, irregular-plan Arts and Crafts country house with deep bracketed eaves, timber mullioned windows, oriel windows, prominent chimney stacks, and a mixture of red-tiled piended, gabled and jerkin-headed roofs. White painted roughcast render. Irregular fenestration of predominantly multi-light windows.

DESCRIPTION: large, sprawling, irregular-planned house with stepped elevations to each side and single-storey piend-roofed service wing extending from W corner. 2-leaf timber-boarded front door with strap hinges in round-arched brick architrave with prominent to gabled lobby advanced from centre of NE elevation; swept-roof section behind with 5-light dormer window; slightly advanced gable to right with small windows at ground and large oriel window under bracketed jerkin-headed roof at 1st floor; irregularly fenestrated recessed section to outer right; 2-bay section to left with tripartite mullioned windows at ground floor and canted, gabled, oriel windows above. 2 5-light mullioned windows at ground of SE (garden) elevation; 1st floor bracketed out above with jerkin-headed gable to left bay flanked by small turret to left and bowed oriel to right; terracotta date stone above round-arched glazed garden door to left return. Large piend-roofed section extending from centre of SW elevation forming courtyard on each side with large 2-storey projecting mullioned window to SE, oriel inglenook with prominent stack to SW, and canted window in NW re-entrant angle at first floor. W courtyard filled with 20th century conservatory. Irregular fenestration and half-glazed timber-boarded back door to NW (rear) elevation.

Predominantly timber casements with a variety of plate glass, leaded and small-pane glazing; some small-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Tall, coped, rendered wallhead and ridge stacks with red clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods with some semicircular hoppers. Red Rosemary tiles to roof.

INTERIOR: Glazed timber lobby door with leaded side lights; black and white tiles to lobby floor. Access to interior not possible 2005. The sales brochure shows original fireplaces (some with excellent Arts and Crafts tile work), timber panelling and plate racks. There is no reason to believe that these have been removed.

GARDEN TERRACES: red brick terrace with gatepiers flanking steps to lawn to SE of house.