Newsham Hall

Newsham Hall is a manor house that likely dates from the 17th century, with significant alterations made in the mid-18th century. The building is constructed of roughcast sandstone rubble with dressed quoins and features graduated green slate roofs. It has 19th-century conjoined stacks made of grey brick. The original layout may have been H-shaped, with a recessed center that was filled by a mid-18th-century addition.

The house is two stories high and has a three-bay center flanked by slightly projecting two-story, single-bay gabled cross wings. The central block features a low plinth and a projecting porch with an entablature, which includes a pair of three-panel outer doors and a part-glazed three-panel inner door. The windows have raised surrounds and projecting sills, with a twelve-pane sash window to the left of the porch, a canted bay window to the right, and three twelve-pane sashes on the first floor and three nine-pane sashes on the second floor. The wings have a plinth, with the ground floor featuring a slightly recessed center and a string course. The left wing has an early 20th-century square bay window on the ground floor and a fifteen-pane sash window above it. The right wing has an eighteen-pane sash on the ground floor and a fifteen-pane sash above. The center block has a low-pitched hipped roof with two lateral stacks, while the wings have low-pitched roofs with coped gables and two ridge stacks; the roof of the right wing is hipped at the rear. The right return of the right wing has similar windows.

At the rear of the center block, there are two attached gabled wings that feature a round-arched staircase window in a raised surround, two tripartite 24-pane horizontal sliding sash windows, and coped gables topped with ball finials.

Inside, the hall includes several six-panel doors with architraves, some adorned with angle paterae, and several two-panel window shutters. The drawing room features a late 18th-century cornice, and there is a two-flight cut-string dogleg staircase with two stick balusters per tread and a ramped handrail. Later additions to the rear of the left wing are not considered to be of special interest.