Newland Hall Farmhouse

NUNEATON AND BEDWORTH

SP38NW 4/63

NEWLAND LANE(North side)

Newland Hall Farmhouse

(Formerly listed as Newland Hall)

01/07/47

II

Farmhouse, formerly the manor house of the Coventry Priory estate. Probably C15 origins, with C16/C17 work, and extensive C19 alterations. Ground floor largely of regular coursed sandstone. Front gable, rear and parts of right return side of C19 brick. C20 plain-tile roof; C19 brick end stack. Two-unit plan, but originally T-plan. One storey and two attics. Splay plinth. One-window range.

Entrance in gable end has mid C20 ribbed door on left. Three-light C20 wood mullioned and transomed windows to right and to first floor. C16/C17 double-chamfered openings have hood moulds abutting. Above are four re-used stone head corbels of c.1300 at regular intervals. Gable has exposed rafters and tie beam. Two-light C20 attic casement. Brick segmental arches. Left return side probably formerly extended further to left. Three-window range. C16/C17 double-chamfered mullioned windows, two of two lights, one of four lights, have hood moulds. Other windows are C20. Three-light casement on right, and raked half-dormer above. Two-light staircase window below eaves.

Interior: former kitchen, now sub-divided, has large sandstone open fireplace with cambered bressumer, and stepped stop-chamfered ceiling beam. C19 winder staircase. First floor room, now sub-divided, has early C17 panelling with dados to two walls, closet door with H-L hinges and cupboard doors with butterfly hinges. Blocked fireplaces lower parts of fluted pilasters of overmantel visible beneath lowered ceiling. Trenched purl in roof trusses, possibly C15, have some stop-chamfering and wind braces. The house is a fragment of a considerably larger building.

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 June 2017.