Newhouse, And Walls Attached

Newhouse is a house, now divided into three separate residences, dating to the 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed of thinly-rendered sandstone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, and has a graduated stone-flagged roof with stone gable copings. The main house is two and a half storeys with seven bays, and a two-storey extension of one wide bay is attached to the right, along with a garden wall.

The main house’s entrance is through a partly-glazed six-panel door within a moulded square-headed surround, with a cyma-moulded label dripmould above. A similar door with a two-pane overlight is in the third bay. All other doors and windows have rebated stone surrounds. The windows have label moulds and flat mullions; most have blocked holes for two vertical bars in each light, although three ground-floor windows on the right have been lowered, likely in the early 19th century. The window reveals and mullions were originally rebated to receive glass frames, except for three first-floor windows on the left, where the glass is set forward of the rebate, and in the three lowered windows which have inserted stones. Some vertical stones suggest that wider label moulds once existed. Five two-light stone-mullioned windows are located on the third floor. The cottage to the right has a four-panel door with a two-pane overlight under a flat stone lintel, and flat stone surrounds to sixteen-pane sash windows. The garden wall to the right features a boarded door within an alternate-block surround.

The roof has flat gable copings on cyma reversa-moulded kneelers, with two end chimneys featuring plinths and cyma reversa-moulded cornices, and a renewed rear chimney in a similar style. Rear stair wings have flat-stone-mullioned windows with slight splays, and single lights with vertical iron bars in the gable peaks.

Inside the left section of the house is a full-height, open-well staircase with close-string construction, featuring square panelled newels with long pendants and fat acorn finials, a grip handrail, skittle balusters, and a pulvinated string, as well as moulded risers. The right side of the main house contains a different close-string, dog-leg staircase with a narrow, roll-moulded handrail on splat balusters, which are lyre-shaped on the first flight, and a pulvinated string. There are numerous two-panelled doors, with the upper panel smaller, each fitted with E hinges. A shell-canopied cupboard with shaped shelves and a pull-out ledge is located in the ground-floor left room, and a first-floor pine chimney-piece with an architrave and dentilled cornice is also present. Original stucco ceiling cornices remain, along with original tied-on glass within a window in the right gable, now blocked by an attached wing.

The house served as the residence of successive agents for the Beaumont lead-mining family.