Newton Hall

WHITTINGTON B6254(off) SD 57 SE

4/206 Newton Hall

GV II

House, rebuilt probably in 1880s, probably by Paley and Austin. Sandstone rubble with roofs mainly of slate.; 2 storeys. Main (south-east) front has a projecting wing at the left and a gabled projection at the right. Between them is a 2-storey porch. Above the ground-floor windows is a drip course. Above this course both the porch and the right-hand projection oversail. The windows are mullioned, some chamfered, some rebated and chamfered. Their spacing is not completely regular, a result of the conversion of an earlier house. To the left of the porch are windows of 2 and 4 lights, with 3 ones of 2 lights on the lst floor. To the right is one bay which has a cross window on the ground floor and one of 2 lights above. The right-hand gabled projection has 3 adjacent cross windows on the ground floor and a 4-light window above. The right-hand return wall of the left-hand wing has a 4-light window on each floor, the lst floor one under a gable. The 1st floor window of the porch is of 3 lights. The chamfered doorway has a carved shield of arms over the lintel: both are enclosed by a hood. The gables have copings with finials. Chimneys on right-hand gable and on gable of left-hand wing have projecting stacks. Further chimneys to right of porch and between porch and left-hand wing. Re-set on the west side of the house and used as a window is a moulded door architrave with lintel inscribed: '16 ONI 78'. Set into the west wall of a wing at the rear of the house is a stone inscribed: '1886 NNA'. Inside, there is a fireplace with a wooden surround in a C17th style, dated 'l886'. A room in the wing projecting at the west side of the front has built-in cupboards of re-used panelling, incorporating inscriptions: 'NB 1600'; 'IB 1712'; 'RF 1650'.

Listing NGR: SD5966474761