Description

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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26490945

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