Description

HELSTON

SW62NE NEWHAM LANE
631-1/2/197 (East side)
22/05/72 Newham House

II

Small country house. Early C19, possibly incorporating rear
wing from C18 house. Roughcast render on rubble; dry slate
hipped roof with projecting eaves. Overall L-shaped
single-depth plan with parlour on the left, central probable
dining room and kitchen/living roon with lower floor level on
right; central rear stair hall; rear wing at right-angles
behind kitchen with service stair between plus coach house at
far right and late C19 conservatory at far left.
2 storeys (over basement on right); symmetrical 3-window
front. Original 16-pane hornless sashes over original 24-pane
hornless sashes; central large C20 bay window with glazing
bars fronting a widened opening. Conservatory is 5 bays with
4-lights per bay over a brick plinth; overlapping panes, the
roof glass curved to direct water clear of glazing bars. Coach
house has 2 hornless sashes with glazing bars. 3-window-range
rear has central round-arched stair window with fanlight head
over late C19 three-bay conservatory/porch with intersecting
round-arched glazing bars. Within the porch, on the right, is
an original doorcase with reeded architrave and corner blocks;
panelled doors.
Bay on right has original 12-pane sash to 1st floor, blind to
ground floor. 3 storey wing on left has early C19 18-pane
horizontal-sliding sash over tripartite window with 3:6:3
panes, and 6-pane window on left over 8-pane casement.
Right-hand return has 12-pane sash and blocked window opening.
Coach house has 2 sashes with glazing bars.
INTERIOR has early C19 partitions, floor structures and roof
structures; panelled doors including possibly 2-panel door
with later-glazed top panel with thin glazing bars; open well
staircase with open string, stick balusters and ramped
handrail scrolled over newel; possibly late C18 wooden
chimneypiece to upper attic room with old iron grate (partly
hidden at time of survey). Basement has deep floor joists of
reused ships' timbers with treenails.

Listing NGR: SW6523328186

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503876

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)