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NEWARK ON TRENT

SK7953NW PARLIAMENT STREET 619-1/7/318 (North East side) 29/09/50 No.1 (Formerly Listed as: PARLIAMENT STREET Old Hall Roman Catholic Presbytery)

GV II

Former Presbytery, now a students' hostel, and attached wall. Early C17, possibly incorporating an earlier building, with late C18 and early C19 alterations. Brick with stone dressings and hipped and gabled steep pitched slate roofs. Chamfered plinth, moulded first and second floor bands, quoins, coped gables, single valley and single gable stacks. 3 storeys; 3x2 bays. Double range plan. Double gabled front to Parliament Street has 2 glazing bar sashes and above, similar smaller windows, the left windows being dummies. Below, an off-centre early C19 moulded doorcase with flat hood on fluted iron columns, with C20 door and overlight. To left, a glazing bar sash. To right, a C19 canted brick bay window with 3 sashes, reglazed early C20. Hipped early C19 addition. to right, has a glazing bar sash and below, a blocked doorway to left and a C20 casement to right. Millgate front has 2 glazing bar sashes on each floor, those to the top floor being smaller. To left, a coped wall approx. 5M long. Opposite side has, to right, a Yorkshire sash on the second and third floors. Rear has, to right, a single glazing bar sash on each floor, the top one being smaller, with an iron spiral staircase leading from a 6-panel door on the top floor. Below, central fielded 6-panel door with keystone, and a small single storey extension with pantile roof. Interior has a resited early C17 oak dogleg stair, 2 flights, with bulbous turned balusters, moulded handrails, panelled square newels and carved ball finials. Above it, late C18 dogleg stair, 2 flights, with stick balusters and intersecting handrail. Small section of fielded panelled dado.

Listing NGR: SK7931653551

External Links

• Wikidata Q26490945

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