12, Appleton Gate

The building at 12 Appleton Gate, Newark on Trent, is a house dating from approximately 1770. It was refenestrated in the mid-19th century and restored around 1995. The construction is brick with stone dressings, and a pantile roof. The left gable is of brick and random rubble, partly rendered. Architectural features include a plinth, bands marking the first and second floors and eaves, a plain coped parapet, gables, and two gable and two ridge stacks. The windows are segment-headed sashes with restored 12-pane glazing bars. The building is three stories high, with a seven-window range on the front. There is a single dummy window on the first floor, and alternate windows are dummies on the second floor. A moulded doorcase with reeded brackets and a dentillated open pediment frames the front door, which is a moulded fielded six-panel door with a fanlight. A round-headed boot scraper is located to the left of the door. To the right of the main door is a 20th-century segment-headed door with overlight, and a sash window. The rear elevation features a central gabled stair projection with an off-centre doorway, a panel door above, a double window with coloured margin light glazing, and another round-headed window above that. A projecting right wing has a raised coped gable and bands on the first and second floors, alongside two pairs of tall French windows with overlights, a sash, and a single sash above. The interior contains an original full-height dog-leg staircase with a continuous pulvinated string, square panelled newels with pendants, turned balusters with knops, and a curved balustrade on the first floor landing. The bottom flight of the staircase has a scroll balustrade with a circular newel, while the lower flights feature dado panelling to the walls. Most doorways have moulded surrounds and six-panel doors, with mostly two-panel doors on the top floor. Many windows have panelled shutters, with some incorporating built-in panelled window seats. The left ground-floor room has moulded coving, dado panelling, a rounded-headed cupboard with original curved shelves, and a segmental arched alcove. It also contains an original large stone inglenook fireplace with a moulded mantle shelf, a keystone, and a plain stone fire surround. Upper rooms contain fragments of panelling and some original cupboards.