Preview: Gallery 16 – Restoration before and after, room by room

QUILLAN & HART · RESTORATION

Nethercote House, before and after.

We took the house back to lime, oak and flagstone one room at a time, while the family lived in the other half. Every pair below was shot from the same tripod mark, so drag across each one to see what was there when we arrived.

THE PROJECT

Building

Nethercote House, a Grade II farmhouse of the 1790s

On site

14 months, February 2025 to April 2026

Rooms restored

Six, with three shown here

Before · March 2025

After · May 2026

Kitchen and flagstone floor

Eleven weeks · floor, walls, range alcove

Two layers of vinyl came up to find the original blue lias flags underneath. We relaid forty of them on a lime bed, matched the missing ones from a farm sale and limewashed the walls in three coats.

Before · June 2025

After · October 2025

Front parlour and inglenook

Seven weeks · fireplace, beam, plaster

The 1970s gas fire came out and the inglenook came back. The bressummer beam had rotted at one end, so we spliced in green oak rather than replace it.

Before · January 2026

After · April 2026

Main stair

Five weeks · treads, balusters, handrail

Eleven treads replaced in reclaimed elm and every baluster stripped by hand. The handrail is the original, taken off, reglued and put back.

Three more rooms, the full schedule of works and the lime mixes we used are in the project write-up.

Read the Nethercote write-up