Description

NEWARK ON TRENT

SK7953NW MILLGATE 619-1/7/286 (North West side) No.84 The White House and adjoining outbuildings, wall and railing

GV II

House, now flats, and adjoining outbuildings wall and railing. Late C18, with early and mid C19 and C20 additions and alterations. Brick, roughcast and colourwashed, with slate roofs with 5 gable and 3 ridge stacks. 2 storeys. 2 main blocks each with 2 windows, the south west one a triple range. L-plan. Garden front has first floor band. Right block has wooden eaves cornice. To left, 2 Doric columns carrying a bow window with 3 plain sashes. The ground floor has been filled in and 3 plain sashes inserted. To right, a single plain sash on each floor. Projecting left block has 2 plain sashes and below, a cast iron French window with fanlight and to right an altered window with 3 glazing bar lights and a reset fanlight above it. Right return has a double coped gable to left with a central canted 2 storey bay window with 3 plain sashes on each floor. To its right, a margin light stair window with a C20 casement below. Projecting right gable has a plain sash and below, a cross casement. To the right, a single storey lean-to addition with ramped coped ends and a canted blind bay window with a small casement. Left return has an attached single storey hipped outbuilding with 2 pairs of garage doors. Millgate front has to left a block with a 2 storey canted bay window with plain sashes above and leaded casements below. To its right, 2 plain sashes on each floor. To right again, a block with a plain sash and a cross casement and below, a plain sash and a close boarded doorway. Beyond, a hipped single storey outbuilding with no openings. Interior has a ground floor room with Ionic pilasters and moulded wall panels, Ionic columns to the bow window, modillioned cross beam ceiling and enriched fireplace and doorcases. Room above has modillioned cornice. Panelled hallway has C19 open well stair in early C17 style. Panelled room on Millgate side has C19 stone fireplace with iron lintel and stone overmantel on curved brackets. Outside, to Millgate, a spearhead railing with rendered plinth and square piers with pyramidal caps. Approx.20M long. On the south west side, a C19 brick boundary wall with gable brick and stone coping. Approx. 80M long.

Listing NGR: SK7924853541

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