Description

NEWARK ON TRENT

SK8054SW APPLETON GATE
619-1/6/30 (South East side)
29/09/50 The Friary 1-4 and Shalem House
(Formerly Listed as:
APPLETON GATE
The Friary)

GV II*

House, now house and flats. Early C17, remodelled c1720. North
and east wings, entrance hall and porch in Gothic style,
1868-77. Restored and remodelled c1987. Coursed squared rubble
with ashlar and brick dressings, with hipped and gabled slate
and plain tile roofs with 2 ridge stacks. Eastern entrance
front has plinth and quoins. 3 storeys; 3 window range of 18
pane sashes, and above, three 6 pane sashes. Below, 3 plain
sashes. To right, a single storey porch with parapet and
datestone inscribed "C G B 1876". Tudor arched double door
with label mould. Right return with 3-light cross mullioned
bay window. Above and behind, a cross range with a 3-light
stone mullioned window, one light blocked, and above, a 6 pane
sash in a chamfered surround. Left return has in the centre 2
early C18 wooden cross casements on the ground and first
floors. On the first floor, to left, a blank and to right a
renewed casement in a C18 stone surround. Above again, 3 stone
mullioned casements and above them, 2 box dormers with 3-light
casements. Rear has irregular fenestration with wooden cross
casements and stone mullioned windows. To right and to rear of
main block, double gabled 2 storey addition dated 1868.
Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and slate roof with a
coped ridge stack. Plinth, coped parapet and shouldered coped
gables. Central casement flanked to left by a mullioned window
and to right by a blank. Pointed arched doorway flanked to
right by a mullioned window. South east range, now Shalem
House, has plinth, quoins, moulded string course, and stepped
coped gable. Plain tile roof. North side has a capped stack
and east gable has a large stack, both external. 2 storeys. To
right, 2 C18 leaded casements and below, 2 C20 windows. South
side has C20 fenestration. South west wing has several C17
loop windows. Parallel C19 brick range has segment headed
sashes. Gabled west wing dated 1876 and 1877 has mullioned
windows and cross casements. Interior has early C17 dogleg oak
stair with intersecting string and turned balusters, with ball
finials and drops. First floor room with bolection moulded
wall panelling.
(Buildings of England: N Pevsner, revised E Williamson:
Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 194).

Listing NGR: SK8019454040

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17547705

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)