Newton Hall

Newton Hall is a country house dating from approximately 1909, designed by F. Foster for Sir Charles Walston. It is now used as offices. The house is constructed of red brick with hipped slate and lead roofs, featuring tall internal stacks with recessed panels and projecting capping. A wood modillion eaves cornice adorns the building. Designed in the Queen Anne Revival style, it is two storeys and attics, with four hipped dormers.

The symmetrical main facade has eleven bays, including projecting end wings, with the three central bays also projecting slightly and topped by a pediment. The pediment contains an elliptical window with an enriched terracotta surround displaying heraldic devices in terracotta. The central doorway features a doorcase with engaged Doric columns and a segmental pediment, leading to double doors of raised and fielded panels with a round-headed arch and a fanlight with swagged glazing bars. Raised key blocks and flat gauged brick arches frame the flush frame hung sash windows, which are painted white with fifteen panes at the first floor and eighteen at ground floor. Giant Ionic corner pilasters are present on the corners of the main range. A pedimented Doric portico marks the principal entry on the east side, over double doors with a rectangular fanlight and late 18th-century glazing bars. Also on the east side is an Adam-style Venetian window with a fanlight over the arch.

The interior includes rooms with bolection moulded panelling and plaster ceilings of varying styles, representing the early and late 17th century and late 18th century. Carved fireplace surrounds are present, including one with caryatids at first floor, and others with bolection moulding or marble. The staircase bay is in two stages with a moulded cornice between. The ground stage is Doric with a screen and round-headed doorcases, while the first floor displays Ionic fluted columns to a screen and landing, with shouldered doorcases and an enriched pulvinated frieze. The open-string staircase has two flights and a landing, incorporating slender, twisted balusters, fluted newels, a moulded and swept rail, scroll tread ends, and a panelled dado.