page_title: Netheravon
section_title: Netheravon House
hierarchical_section_title: Netheravon / History / Netheravon House
caption_attribution_description: English: Dovecote near All Saints Church, Netheravon Dovecote built in the 18th century of brick with a tile roof. Restored in 1980. Still with most of its 700 nesting boxes.
context_page_description: Netheravon is a village and civil parish on the River Avon and A345 road, about 4 miles north of the town of Amesbury in Wiltshire, South West England. It is within Salisbury Plain.
  The village is on the right bank of the Avon, opposite Fittleton. The parish extends west onto Netheravon Down.
context_section_description: Netheravon house was built after 1734 as a hunting box for Henry Scudamore, Duke of Beaufort, possibly on the site of an earlier manor house. The grounds were laid out before 1755 by Thomas Wright. In 1791 a block was added in the centre of the north front, for Michael Hicks Beach to designs of John Soane. The three-storey house is built in brick and has five bays to its south entrance front, where there is a pedimented porch.
  An 18th-century dovecote stands in the grounds to the north of the house. The large stable block of 1734–40 is also in brick, and surrounds four sides of a courtyard with a narrow opening to the north. A colonnade links the house and stables.
  Following purchase by the War Department in 1898, the house and stables were the home of the Cavalry School from 1904. In 1975 the house served as the Officers' Mess for the Support Weapons Wing of the School of Infantry. In the 1990s the house, stables and grounds were sold by the Ministry of Defence. In 2004 the house was converted into two homes and the stables into seven. Avon Camp continues to occupy a site to the south.
  In 1986 the house was recorded as Grade II* listed, and the stables and dovecote Grade II.
caption: The dovecote at Netheravon House
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