Grosvenor Hall Private Nursing Home

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SK96NE NEWARK ROAD 1941-1/5/283 (East side) 02/08/89 Grosvenor Hall private nursing home (Formerly Listed as: NEWARK ROAD (East side) Grosvenor Old People's Home)

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Formerly known as: Bracebridge Hall NEWARK ROAD. Country house, now an old people's home. 1883. By Albert Vicars for F Clarke, manufacturer of patent medicines. Brick with stone dressings, hipped and gabled slate roofs, with 2 ridge and 2 side wall stacks. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth, moulded string courses, coped gables with kneelers and finials. 2 storeys plus attics, 6 bays. Square plan. West front has a projecting centre, 3 bays, with modillion eaves cornice, coped parapet and central gabled dormer. Portico with parapet and segmental pointed openings and round piers, flanked by single shouldered cross casements. To right, a Gothic doorway with overlight and hoodmould, and to left a sash with a similar head. To the right, a gable with a square bay window with parapet and 3 Gothic style plain sashes. Above it, a triple sash. South side has a near-central gabled wing, with a triple sash on each floor. To its left, a polygonal tower, 3 stages, with 3 sashes in Gothic surrounds. Top stage has square leaded lights. Octagonal roof with blind gabled dormers. North side has an off-centre square tower, 2 stages, with an octagonal leaded spire. To right, a canted bay window, 2 storeys, with hipped roof. To left, a gabled wing. East side has a central gabled wing with a canted bay window, 2 storeys, and above it, a traceried round window. INTERIOR has a central 2 storey entrance hall lit by a leaded glazed skylight, with a hammer beam roof with marble wall shafts carried on foliage corbels. Enriched frieze, inlaid panelled wainscot, moulded doorcases. 4 stained glass window panels representing the seasons, by Mayer of Munich. Open well stair with turned octagonal balusters and wrought-iron panels. Inserted lift shaft and false ceiling. Side corridor with 2 shouldered arches and 2-light stained glass window, and false ceiling. (Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 527).

Listing NGR: SK9679468236