Salisbury Hall

SD 6950 18/51

NEWTON, NEWTON VILLAGE Salisbury Hall

16.11.1954

(Formerly listed as Salisbury Hall, (formerly Newton Old Hall))

GV II

House, early C18th. Pebbledashed rubble with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-pile plan. 2 storeys with attic, 4 bays. Cross windows on the 1st floor, mullioned with 3 lights on the ground floor, all rebated and chamfered with tooling visible. The continuous drip course over the ground floor is truncated part way across the left-hand unit. The 3 right-hand bays have central entry with end stacks, the door having a chamfered surround and battlemented lintel. The ground-floor window of the left-hand bay has been extended upwards by the re-use of another 5-light window to form a mullioned and transomed window. To its left is a door with plain stone surround. The chimney caps, on the gables and to the right of the left-hand bay, are of ashlar with moulded copings. The right-hand gable has 2 one-light chamfered attic windows with segmental heads. Interior. The middle room has a wide fireplace with moulded voussoirs and jambs and segmental head. At the rear of the room is a double door of raised and fielded panels. The stair, at the centre of the rear of the house, has 3 flights around an open well. It has a closed string, square newels with sunken mouldings, ball finials, turned balusters, and some pendants remaining. A dog-leg continuation of the stair once led to the attic, but is now blocked. On the flat floor are 3 oak doors with raised and fielded panels.

Listing NGR: SD6966250491