Nottinghamshire County Council Social Services Office

This is a mid-18th century house, now used as Nottinghamshire County Council Social Services offices, originally built for Dr Bernard Wilson, the vicar of Newark. The building is constructed of brick with stone dressings, and has a hipped slate roof. It features chamfered quoins, bands to the first and second floors, a coped parapet, and three ridge stacks plus a single side wall stack. The main block is square with five bays and three storeys, accompanied by two-storey wings with two bays each. Windows are predominantly glazing bar sashes of varying shapes; five sashes are topped with keystone lintels, while five smaller sashes have rubbed brick heads. The parapet is punctuated by five blank panels. A central, coped square porch features a projecting doorway, a double door with overlight, and is flanked by single sashes. Rear elevations mirror the front, with projecting three-storey wings, and a mid-20th century single-storey range containing five sashes. The north-west side presents five sashes with keystones above which is a sash and four blank panels. A moulded doorcase with a hood on brackets leads to a fielded six-panel door with overlight. Flanking the door are a sash to the left and two to the right. A two-storey, four-bay wing is situated to the right. The south-east side has seven sashes and two 20th-century doors, flanked by three sashes to the left and two to the right. Internally, there are two 18th-century staircases, one a dogleg design and the other an open well, both exhibiting vase and stem balusters and square newels. A north-west front room boasts a panelled dado, a dentil cornice, and an Ionic pilastered chimneypiece with an entablature, fielded overmantel panel, and a mid-19th century marble fireplace with scroll brackets and shaped mantelshelf, incorporating elliptical arched recesses on either side. Diagonally opposite, a room features a moulded doorcase, cornice, and ceiling boss. Nine 18th-century fielded panelled doors, combinations of two and six panels, are present throughout.