Newark Town And District Club

The Newark Town and District Club is an early 18th-century house, subsequently altered in the mid-19th century and late 19th century. It is constructed of brick with stone dressings and slate roofs. The building has a double-range plan and three storeys. The front features a projecting central bay. The front elevation has a first-floor band, a second-floor band, an eaves cornice, a coped parapet, and gables with four gable stacks. There is a dentilled brick eaves course at the rear. The front has a five-window range of wooden cross casements, the central one with a moulded architrave and keystone. Above are similar windows with smaller openings, all with segmental heads. Below is a moulded stone doorcase with a keystone and pediment on scroll brackets. The entrance has a half-glazed door with shaped panels and an overlight, and a lamp bracket. To the left is a late 19th-century square bay window with leaded toplights. To the right are two cross casements with segmental heads. A two-storey mid-19th century addition with a hipped roof is on the right side, featuring two windows. The rear has an irregular fenestration including a central glazing bar sash, flanked to the left by two similar sashes, and to the right, a two-storey canted bay window with dentilled eaves and a plain parapet. The canted bay has four round-cornered plain sashes on each floor. Above the canted bay are four smaller glazing bar sashes, with two being dummies. A 19th-century glazed door with a flat hood and 20th-century brick cheeks is located centrally on the rear, accompanied by a segmentally-headed glazing bar sash with a balcony above. A 20th-century French window with sidelights is to the left, while a late 19th-century billiard room with a single gable stack is to the right. The billiard room includes a canted left corner with three plain sashes and a blank dormer, and a segmentally-headed French window with side and top lights. The interior features a late 18th-century open-well staircase with a moulded string, vase and stem balusters, a fluted round newel, and a moulded handrail. The entrance hall has a moulded round-headed arch with imposts and a keystone. The first floor rear dining room retains an 18th-century enriched cornice and plaster ceiling. Various fielded six-panel doors are present, two in the entrance hall with eared and shouldered architraves. The matchboarded billiard room features fitted benches and a fireplace with an eared architrave.