Winthorpe Hall

Winthorpe Hall is a country house built around 1760. It was begun for Dr. Robert Taylor of Newark and completed for Roger Pocklington, the Newark banker, probably to designs by John Carr of York. A 19th-century addition was later made to the east.

The main house is constructed of ashlar and brick with a hipped slate roof with lead flashing. It has three ashlar chimney stacks and a modillion cornice. The building sits on a plinth with a thick plain band topping the basement and measures two and a half storeys with five bays. The centre bay is pedimented, slightly wider, and projects slightly forward.

The south front features a basement of rusticated ashlar with a central blocked doorway flanked by single blocked windows, all with keystones. Each outer bay has a single glazing bar sash with splayed lintel and keystone. A free-standing rusticated perron on a plinth with a central arch provides access to the now blocked doorway, with iron railings leading to the central Venetian doorway of the main floor. This doorway comprises a double half-glazed door with traceried fanlight under a moulded arch, flanked by single pilasters, with single glazing bar sashes and a balustrade beneath. Further single pilasters support moulded architraves, with the arch springing from their inner edges. The outer bays of the main floor each have a single glazing bar sash with lintel and keystone flush with the wall. The top floor outer bays have similar, smaller sashes, whilst the central bay has a single Venetian window with lintels and keystones flush with the wall, centred beneath an oeil de boeuf with glazing bars.

The 19th-century extension to the east is two storeys and two bays, with an ashlar basement and brick above. The roof, concealed by a parapet with moulded cornice, has a gable ashlar stack dated 1886. There are two glazing bar sashes to each floor, with those to the basement being smaller.

The west facade features a three-storey canted bay with a main floor sill band. The basement has three arched glazing bar sashes with lintels and projecting keystones. The main floor has two glazing bar sashes with lintels and keystones and a central arched and traceried glazing bar sash. The top floor has three glazing bar sashes with lintels and keystones flush with the wall.

The north facade has a central canted bay corresponding to that of the west, except that the basement windows are square-headed. There are two bays either side, each floor having a glazing bar sash, apart from the basement which has an off-centre east doorway.

The east facade has a Venetian window lighting the interior staircase.

Various features such as urns and dormers were removed during recent restoration.

The interior contains a three-flight return main staircase in early 18th-century style with three plain ballusters with knops per tread and decorated carved tread ends. The entrance hall features a Doric columned fireplace, an Ionic screen, and a modillion cornice. The saloon has a late 18th-century decorated plaster ceiling and a stone fireplace with Ionic columns supporting a broken pediment containing a shell disgorging fruit. All ground floor door cases are moulded, mostly with pediments and panelled mahogany doors. A back stone staircase runs from basement to attic and has an iron balustrade.