Newlands

Newlands is a late 17th-century house, altered in the 19th century and with significant 20th-century extensions to the rear and left. It is now used as a home for the elderly. The house is constructed of whitewashed brick with a hipped slate roof, and has end stacks. The main block is taller, with three storeys, and features a plat band above the ground floor. It has five bays, with the central bay projecting. It has glazing bar sash windows in architrave surrounds with projecting cills, and painted, gauged brick heads to the window surrounds. The first-floor central window has a lugged surround with small scrolls at the bottom. The central entrance features double, half-glazed doors, beneath a traceried transom light in an architrave surround. A flat hood is supported by acanthus console brackets with rich carving of fruit and flowers down panelled piers. To the left is a lower, three-storey, three-bay range. A 19th-century polygonal projecting window, supported by brackets, is set into the right-hand return front at first-floor level; a semi-circular bowed bay is at the rear. The drawing room contains a fine, panelled ceiling with richly carved foliage and fruit garlands. Further decorative ceilings and panelling are found in the ground floor rooms. A 17th-century staircase was restored after a fire in the 1970s and includes square panelled newel posts and barley-sugar and turned balusters to the balustrade.