Description

NEWARK ON TRENT

SK7954SE NORTHGATE
619-1/5/301 (North West side)
29/09/50 No.7
Handley House and adjoining former
house to left.

GV II

House and adjoining former house to left, now architects'
offices. Late C17 and early C18, with late C18 and late C19
additions. Brick, with stone dressings and hipped slate roofs.
Chamfered plinth and quoins, first floor band, wooden
modillioned eaves, 2 ridge stacks. Windows are glazing bar
sashes. 2 storeys plus attics; 5 window range with flat arches
and keystones. Above, 2 low pitched gabled dormers. Central
rusticated doorcase with multiple keystone and cornice.
Renewed 2-leaf fielded 6-panel door with overlight, flanked by
2 sashes. 3 bay rear has 2 segment headed sashes and to left a
2 storey segmental bow window with parapet and a triple sash
on each floor. Above, 3 gabled dormers. below, central
half-glazed door with fanlight , flanked to right by a blocked
door and a segment headed sash. Right side has 3 segment
headed sashes. Below, a late C19 single storey addition with
hipped and gabled slate roof, quoins, and external gable
stack. 2 large segment headed triple sashes and in the north
end, a similar sash. Left end has to right a single segment
headed sash on each floor. Adjoining former house has plinth,
dentillated eaves, and 3 ridge stacks. Windows are segment
headed glazing bar sashes. 2 storeys; 5 window range, the
central 3 projecting, with a blank and a larger saash to left.
Below, central reeded wooden doorcase with moulded 6-panel
door and overlight with C20 hood, flanked to right by 2
segment headed sashes. To left, a larger sash and a blank.
Each end has 2 segment headed openings on each floor. Interior
has central 4-flight open well stair with square reeded
newels, moulded hand rail and vase and stem balusters.
Principal rafter roof with single butt purlins and collars.
Ground floor board room has C17 fielded panelling and C18
plaster cornice and ceiling. Early C19 marble fireplace with
overmantel panel flanked by single fielded cupboard doors.
First floor front room has beaded panelling with cornice and
Classical corner fireplace with lobed overmantel panel. Right
front room has cornice and matching marble fireplace c1830.
Several fielded 6-panel doors.
(Buildings of England: N Pevsner, revised E Williamson:
Nottinghamshire: Harmondsworth: 1979-: 200).

Listing NGR: SK7983454208

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26525109

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