Description

WELLOW NEWARK ROAD SK 66 NE (north side) 3/95 Wellow Hall and adjoining stable 11.8.61 range

G.V. II

Country house. 1700. Remodelled and extended mid C18 and early C20. Now 2 properties. Brick, partly rendered and colourwashed. Gabled and hipped slate roofs. Ashlar dressings. Chamfered plinth, coped gables with kneelers. 4 ridge and single side wall stacks. 2 storeys plus garrets, 5 bays. L-plan. Windows are mainly glazing bar sashes and C2O casements. West front has to left C19 wing with 2 projecting bays and 7 casements. Above, to left, oriel window and to right, 4 casements. Above again, a gabled and a flat roofed dormer. To right, 2 storey block, 2 bays, with cogged eaves and 2 sashes on each floor. North wall has, above, datestone inscribed 'JGM 1700'. In return angle, C20 gabled porch. To right again, gable with C19 square bay window and above, casement to garret. C18 south front has 5 glazing bar sashes on each floor. C20 north front has off-centre door flanked to left by 3 sashes and to right, 2 casements. Outside, iron pump with domed cap. Above, 5 sashes on different levels. Gable to right has, above again, a sash. C20 south front has 2 casements and above, 2 sashes. East front has to left, canted, hipped 2 storey bay window with 3 sashes on each floor. To right, French window with overlight, flanked by single sashes. Beyond, to right, 4 sashes, 2 plain. Above, 6 sashes, 2 plain. Above again, to left, casement to garret. C18 stable block, to north, partly rebuilt c.1984. Central 2 storey carriage house with single storey wings, 3 bays. Carriage house has to west central pair of elliptical headed carriage doors with blocked keystoned ashlar surround, flanked by keystoned oval blind openings. Above, a Diolcetian window with projecting architrave. Roofless wing to left has blind oval opening, flanked to left by single doors with segmental and elliptical heads. Beyond to right, Yorkshire sash with segmental head. Right wing has 2 C20 casements and to right, door. Pedimented south gable has single casement. East side has 4 casements. Most casements have segmental heads. Central hall and service room to north have exposed span beams, one with shaped stops. Hall has partial C18 panelled dado. Morning room and drawing room, to south, have lincrusta Adam style cornices, late C18, with mid C19 Classical timber and black marble fireplaces. Kitchen, to west, has Adam style cornice and notable early C18 Classical ashlar fireplace with panelled eared architrave, stepped frieze and curved brackets to cornice. Flanked by single early C19 panelled doors. C18 framed newel stair with square newels (some renewed), moulded handrail and vase and stem balusters. Re-sited fielded panelling below. Single C18 2 panel and 6 panel doors. 6 C19 beaded panelled doors.

Listing NGR: SK6693266251

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• Wikidata Q26473430

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