Description

NOTTINGHAM

SK5639NW NEWCASTLE DRIVE 646-1/18/443 (South East side) No.39 Walton House and attached boundary wall and lych gate

GV II

House and attached boundary wall and lych gate. Dated 1886. By Watson Fothergill of Nottingham. Red brick with rock-faced stone basement, ashlar and black brick dressings, and timber framing with patterned brick nogging. Gabled and hipped plain tile roofs with 3 tall, moulded brick stacks. Windows are mainly original plain sashes in cross mullioned wooden frames. 2 and 3 storeys plus basement and attics; 3 window range. U-plan, on an acute angled, sloping corner site. Garden front, to south-east, has a recessed centre flanked by a square tower to left and a gabled bay to right. In the centre, double steps with landing and ramped coped balustrade wall. Glazed lean-to porch between the wings, with central door. Above, 2 windows. Tower to left has pyramidal roof and coped side wall stack. Hipped bay window, 3-lights, and above, a smaller 3-light window. Second floor, timber-framed, also has a 3-light window. Right wing has a hipped, canted bay window, 5-lights, and above, a segment-arched 3-light window. Rear has to right a lean-to projection with stepped coped side walls, and above it, a canted bay window with octagonal spire roof. Above again, to left, a hipped dormer. Rear wing has a hipped single storey projection. Boundary wall, rock-faced stone and brick, runs across the rear along Newcastle drive, then via a semicircular curve to Tattershall Drive. Brick section, at the rear, has plinth, buttresses and shaped brick coping. Central gabled lychgate with panelled door. The brick section follows the curve, with an increasingly deep stone plinth. Stone section, to Tattershall Drive, has stepped rubble coping and a plain gateway. Total length approx 75m. (Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: Watson Fothergill, Architect: Nottingham: 1987-: 16 & 17).

Listing NGR: SK5616239945

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)