Kings Newton House And Attached Gates And Outbuildings

King’s Newton House is a 17th-century house that was altered and extended in the early 19th century, with minor later alterations. It is constructed of rendered stone with a deep stone plinth and a hipped slate roof featuring wide eaves, rendered side wall stacks, and a large rendered ridge stack. The house is three storeys and originally three bays, with a large rear addition. The main elevation has a central early 19th-century bow window with 20th-century casements. Flanking this are glazing bar sashes, the one to the east slightly larger than the other. Below the western sash is a blocked 2-light recessed and chamfered mullion basement window, and between this and the central bow, there is a dip in the plinth and the shadowy evidence of a pedimented doorcase. Above, there are three glazing bar sashes and, above again, three similar smaller windows. A line in the render at sill level suggests this storey was added in the early 19th century.

The east side of the house features an early 19th-century semi-circular headed doorcase with a panelled door, traceried fanlight, and a long barrel vaulted porch roof above. The rear elevation has a long two-storey addition to the west, with 3-light casements to the ground floor and glazing bar sashes above. The east side of this rear addition incorporates a range of early 19th-century outbuildings with semi-circular headed doors. One part of these outbuildings contains a working cheese press, and the other a bread oven and soft water pump. Attached to the east side of these outbuildings is an attractive brick wall with a wide, depressed segmental gauged brick arch. An attached rendered curved stone wall extends to the east side of the house, incorporating a pair of large gate piers with stipled bases, tooled rustication, and pyramidal coping stones.

Inside, a late 17th-century dogleg staircase has turned balusters, a moulded handrail, and ball finials to the newel posts. The ground floor has an early 19th-century character, including reeded cornices, semi-circular headed doorcases with flush doors, and Hopton Wood marble paving in the hall. One 18th-century fireplace is present in one of the bedrooms, and there is a tiny winder staircase to the south side of the large stack.