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TOWN OF DONCASTER
NETHER HALL ROAD (North Side)
Nether Hall

18.4.69

II

House, now offices. Early -mid C18, with early C19 alterations and large C20 additions. Stucco with painted ashlar dressings and graduated Westmorland slate roof. Originally L-plan, main range with central hallway entrance. Two storeys with attics, five bays 2:1:2, with nine bay right return, C20 block to left of main facade of no special interest. Main facade has plinth and rusticated quoins. Steps to wide four columned Doric portico with tuscan trigylphed frieze with guttae and modillioned cornice; entrance behind, has to original central doorcase in raised surround with ovolo moulded inner edge double panelled doors and plain overlight, flanked by narrow small pane windows with projecting sills, and ionic pilaters. To either side there are two unequally hung fifteen pane sashes in raised surrounds with ovolo moulded inner edges. Above four similar windows and centre tripartite window with twenty and ten pane sashes in similar surround. All windows with inserted stone sills. Substantial moulded stone cornice, slightly projecting over the quoins.

Hipped roof. Three roof dormers with sashes. Brick ridge stack and side wall stack to left. Right return has projecting two storey canted bay window to left, three central bays and projecting early -mid C18 three bay wing to right, with rusticated quoins. Canted bay has unequally hung fifteen pane sashes with projecting sills to each face and floor. Central bays have three C20 casements to ground floor and one ten pane and two different sized fifteen pane sashes to first floor. Earlier wing has C20 casement and door to ground floor and above three C20 windows in early C18 raised surrounds with keystone bead moulded inner edges and moulded sills.

Rear elevation of this early wing has rusticated quoins and moulded cornice which slightly projects over the quoins. No original openings. Interior has fine hall with dado panelling, screen of Ionic column in antis, raised and fielded panelled doors in architraves with pulvinated friezes to cornices above. To rear is a magnificent imperial staircase with barley twist on vase balusters, ramped moulded handrail, panelled cheekpieces and panelled dado to opposite wall. Landing has Ionic columned screens to sides of staircase, possibly early C20, also pedimented doorcase to front room. Council chamber to rear wing has good early C20 panelling and domed ceiling light.

Listing NGR: SE5781103608

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Nether Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26487415

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey