Description

SJ 40 SE CONDOVER C.P. -

9/41 Netley Hall and attached
- service buildings (formerly
29.1.52 listed as Netley Hall in the
Parish of Stapleton)
- II

Country house. 1854-8 by Edward Haycock. Red brick with rusticated quoins
and stone dressings; slate roof concealed by open stone balustrade over
modillioned eaves cornice, ridge stacks. Restrained Classical style. 3
storeys with stone cill band across each floor; 5 bays, central bay stone-
faced with rusticated pilaster strips; windows all cross-paned sashes in
eared architraves to first and second floors and with console brackets to
ground floor; central entrance, tall 8-panel double doors with rectangular
overlight flanked by fixed-light windows; Tuscan porch with 2 pairs of
columns and moulded entablature of triglyphs, metopes and guttae. Left.
return of 3 bays has full-height 3-window canted bay to centre; 6 bays to
rear. Rectangular 4-bay service block set back to right has clock tower
protruding from roof, 5 glazing bar sashes to rear: long single-storey
ranges attached, flanking back courtyard, the south-eastern one with Doric-
columned verandah behind, facing garden. Interior: central rectangular
hall lit by stained glass ceiling; Tuscan pilasters to long walls and to
right an open screen of 2 Tuscan columns, behind which rises a staircase,
with decorated cast-iron balusters, starting in one flight and returning
to the first floor in 2; cast-iron balustrade to first floor with the
dates of the building of the house (1854-8) picked out in the decorative
details; mid-C17 oak panelling in small ante-room behind porch and more
in another ground-floor room to right, including an elaborately carved
fireplace overmantel with grotesque figures, said to come from the house at
Greet (near Tenbury Wells), demolished in 1920s. B.O.E. p. 216.

Listing NGR: SJ4732201793

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26469904

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