Description

In the entry for:

SU 20 NE LYNDHURST EMERY DOWN

6/12 Netherwood House

GV II

the address shall be amended to read:
EMERY DOWN

Northerwood House

II

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SU 20 NE LYNDHURST EMERY DOWN

6/12 Netherwood House
19.10.71
GV II

Large country house, now flats. Circa 1780 possibly by J Nash, enlarged and stuccoed
early C19, converted and restored 1973, with attic added. Brick, later stuccoed,
slate roof. Basically 2 storey raised on basement and attic, 2 rooms deep, 5 bay
with added bay projecting on entrance front. Front has added part to LH. To LH
bay of original part enclosed Doric porch, pilasters and entablature. Double doors
and rectangular fanlight with linked vertical oval glazing pattern. To LH 12-pane
sash on both floors. Other bays have tripartite sashes, those on ground floor have
cornices on guilloche patterned console brackets. 1st floor raised band. Moulded
cornice and blocking course. To main part C20 mansard roof with window in each bay.
Garden front has basement; main block of 7 bays, with slightly projecting wings,
each end. Basement has broad Doric pilasters. On these is loggia to ground floor
of plain columns encased in trellis work rising to bulbous cap. End bays of loggia
are enclosed and have casement. Over is balcony to 1st floor with anthemion
pattern railing. 12-pane sashes, with louvred shutters and blind boxes to 1st floor.
Wings have tripartite sashes, and pediments. Interior remodelled early C20.
Late C18 rooms on ground floor facing garden. On other side entrance hall has C20
staircase but room off it has Elizabethan style ceiling. Attribution to Nash
comes from G S Repton whose sketch book of a visit to the New Forest illustrates
'Elevation of a house with trellis verandah at 1st floor level by Mr Nash for
Mr Mitchell in the New Forest at Lyndhurst', in RIBA Drawings Collection.

Listing NGR: SU2862908431

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26460629

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