Nottinghamshire County Council Social Services Office

NEWARK ON TRENT

SK8053NW BALDERTON GATE 619-1/9/51 (South West side) 29/09/50 Notts County Council Social Services Office (Formerly Listed as: NEWARK Council Offices)

GV II

House, now Social Services offices. Mid C18, with late C19 and mid C20 additions in matching style. Built for Dr Bernard Wilson, vicar of Newark. Brick with stone dressings and hipped slate roof. Chamfered quoins, first and second floor bands, coped parapet, 3 ridge and single side wall stacks. Square 5 bay main block, 3 storeys, with 2 bay wings, 2 storeys. Windows are glazing bar sashes of various shapes. 5 sashes with keystone lintels and above, 5 smaller sashes with rubbed brick heads. Parapet has 5 blank panels. Central coped square porch with projecting doorway, double door and overlight, flanked by single sashes. Each wing has 2 sashes on each floor. Rear elevation has similar fenestration to the front, with projecting 3 storey wings. Each wing has 2 sashes, and below, a canted bay window. Between the wings, a single storey mid C20 range with 5 sashes. North west side has to left 5 sashes with keystones and above, a sash and 4 blanks. Moulded doorcase with hood on brackets and fielded 6-panel door with overlight, flanked by a sash to left and 2 to right. To the right, a 2 storey wing, 4 bays. South east side has 7 sashes and below, 2 C20 doors flanked to left by 3 sashes and to right by 2. Interior has 2 C18 stairs, dogleg and open well, with vase and stem balusters and square newels. North west front room has panelled dado and dentillated cornice. Ionic pilasterd chimneypiece with entablature and fielded overmantel panel, containing mid C19 marble fireplace with scroll brackets to shaped mantelshelf. On either side, an elliptical arched recess. Diagonally opposite room has moulded doorcase, cornice and ceiling boss. 9 C18 fielded panelled doors, 2 and 6 panels. (Buildings of England: N Pevsner, revised E Williamson: Nottinghamshire: Harmondsworth: 1979-: 195).

Listing NGR: SK8002253692