Description

NEWARK ON TRENT

SK7953NE KIRKGATE
619-1/8/187 (North East side)
No.43
School of Violin Making

GV II

Former bank and manager's house, now school of violin making.
Dated 1887. By Watson Fothergill for the Nottingham & Notts
Bank. Tower reduced in height, 1957. Converted c1975. Red
brick, with blue brick, terracotta and stone dressings and
gabled and hipped plain tile roofs. Single ridge and 2 side
wall stacks, the latter with twisted double shafts. Italian
Gothic Revival style. Rockfaced chamfered plinth. 2 and 3
storeys plus 4-stage tower. In the centre, a 2 storey banking
hall with plinth, string courses, stepped pilasters and coped
balustrade, which extends to the right to form a balcony to
the tower. 3 full height transomed windows with shafts and
panel tracery. Tower, to right, has string courses and
pyramidal roof with bracketed eaves on corbels. Ground floor
has a round headed recess with hood mould containing 2 doors
with trumeau and double flanking shafts, and graduated triple
light above them. Above, a shouldered plain sash and above
again, 2 round headed plain sashes opening onto the balcony.
Bell stage has on each side a round headed recess with hood
mould, containing 3 round headed plain sashes with shafts. To
left, manager's house and offices. Plinth, string courses,
modillion eaves cornice, cogged eaves and iron ridge crests. 3
storeys; 3 window range with central cross mullioned window
flanked by single square oriels cross mullioned windows, that
to the right being smaller and simpler. Above, 3 double and
one triple round headed plain sashes with shafts on corbels.
Central shouldered 2 leaf door with mullioned overlight,
flanked to left by a 3-light shouldered plain sash with
shafts, and to right by a pair of similar 2-light windows. The
shafts form supports to the oriel above each window. To the
far left, an entry door with tiled canopy and stone lintel.
Interior has polychrome banking hall with coved panelled
ceiling on corbels. Entrance side has a central polychrome
stone fireplace with tiled overmantel on brackets. To left, a
moulded round headed double recess with granite pier, and to
right, a segment headed doorway with half-glazed doors.
Opposite end has 3 doorways and to right a stone and glazed
brick fireplace inscribed "Estd. 1834". On either side, 3 tall
windows. Open well dogleg stair with moulded handrail and
unusual turned, cruciform balusters. Corridors on each floor
have pedimented doorcases. Main first floor offices have
cornices and more elaborate doorcases. Single Tudor arched
tiled fireplace. This building is a virtually intact example
of the idiosyncratic work of Watson Fothergill.
(Buildings of England: E Williamson: Nottinghamshire: London:
1979-: 195).

Listing NGR: SK7988853990

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• School of Violin Making at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26522992

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