Newcourt And Newcourt Farmhouse

SU 12 SE 4/112 23/3/60

DOWNTON SALISBURY ROAD (off east side)

Newcourt and Newcourt Farmhouse

GV II*

Pair of semi-detached houses. Late C17. English bond brick with limestone quoins, tiled roofs, brick stacks with toothed capping. H-plan; each house is T-plan. Newcourt Farmhouse to east has 2- storey, basement and attic, 4-window front. Central half-glazed door in bolection-moulded case with open segmental pediment and recessed chamfered side-lights, to right is one 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned window and to left are two mullioned windows; all with flat arches. First floor moulded string course and four recessed chamfered mullioned windows; all with leaded lights. Basement has 2-light mullioned windows and chamfered doorcase, moulded plinth. Attic has four hipped dormers with 2-light leaded casements. Coped verges with kneelers. Right return has 2-light mullioned windows with some blocked to attic. Left return has external stack with offsets, 2-light mullioned windows with some blocked. Central linking range of 'H' has C19 4-panelled door with tiled canopy to front with 2-light mullioned windows to basement, ground and first floor, basement has chamfered doorcase to left and blocked door below C19 door, string,courses and a straight joint down centre. Rear of centre range has C20 extension to ground floor and C20 casements to first floor. Newcourt to west has 2- storey with basement and attic, 6-window front. Central planked and studded door in bolection-moulded case with open segmental pediment, chamfered side-lights and C19 gabled porch, to either side are 9-pane sashes in chamfered cases. First floor has string course and five 2-light mullioned windows. Basement has similar windows. Attic has two C19 gabled dormers. Right return has plate glass sashes and mullioned windows. Left return has mullioned windows. Interior of Newcourt has newel stairs with original turned balusters and fine plank and muntin partition rising to first floor, chamfered beams with ogee stops. Newcourt Farmhouse has chamfered beams with ogee, step and runout stops throughout, chamfered stone fireplace and blocked fireplace with continuous chamfer. Stairs with vase balusters, partly boxed-in by fine plank and muntin partition, planked doors with wooden latches to attic. The detail of stairs and partitioning closely resembles that at The Courthouse in Downton (q.v.). (Unpublished records of RCHM (England), Salisbury)

Listing NGR: SU1742022212