Newton Hall

Newton Hall is a small country house dating to circa 1700. It is constructed of stone-dressed brick with a hipped grey slate roof. The building is symmetrical, with five windows, and has a basement and loft. The front features a plinth with flush quoins and a moulded cap, continuing as rusticated quoins above the plinth. A damaged flight of six stone steps leads to a boarded-up entrance, set within a stone case with eared architraves. Two boarded-up sash windows flank the entrance, also in stone cases. A first floor band has a moulded lower arris. The projecting entrance bay has a wall sundial above the door case. The five original flush sashes have been destroyed, however sash boxes remain; internal panelled shutters are visible and a stone architrave frames the central sash. A large stone cornice sits above the eaves, surmounted by a vandalised parapet with stone quoins and remnants of the cap. A central dormer has been replaced; smaller dormers with raked roofs are present on each side. The west elevation shows boarded stone-cased basement windows, two boarded sashes to the ground floor, and two badly damaged cross-windows to the first floor, all under gauged brick flat arches, with three-course brick floorbands. Two rear wings extend from the main building. The east side has a later, single-storey flat-roofed wing with two large boarded-up windows, set beneath long gauged-brick flat arches, a three-light boarded basement window before the wing, and three damaged sashes to the first floor. Chimneys have arched panels in a late 17th-century style. The interior of the house was not inspected. The building was vacant at the time of the survey in June 1992.