Newton House Attached Outbuilding And Garden Walls

ESKDALESIDE-CUM-UGGLEBARNBY FALLING FOSS, NZ 80 SE Ugglebarnby 9/66 Newton House, attached 6.10.69 outbuilding and garden walls GV II Small country house, and garden walls. c.1800 with late C19 and C20 alteration. Herringbone-tooled sandstone on plinth, with bordered herringbone-tooled lintels. Slate roofs. Herringbone-tooled garden walls. Central-stairhall plan, two rooms deep, with flanking crosswings. Entrance front: 2-storey, 3-window centre range flanked by 2-storey, 2-window projecting crosswings: 1-storey lean-to outbuilding at right. 6-panel door in pilastered doorcase in Roman Doric prostyle porch with triglyph frieze and moulded cornice. All centre range and right crosswing windows are 12-pane sashes, including inserted window at left end of centre range. Left crosswing windows are 4-pane sashes. Ground floor sillband to centre range; stone sills to remaining windows. Raised first floor and eaves bands. All roofs hipped. Outbuilding has plank door beneath plain lintel, coped gable and shaped kneeler. Garden front: 2- storey, 5-window centre range flanked by 2-storey, 2-window crosswings: concave garden walls attached on each side. 4-panel, half-glazed door beneath console cornice hood in projecting flat-roofed porch. Centre range and left crosswing windows are 12-pane sashes. Ground floor of right crosswing has 3-window canted bay with 4-pane sashes; 4-pane sashes on first floor. Other details repeat those on entrance front. Garden walls of varying heights, stepped up and raked in places, with flat coping. Single opening in right wall has round arch of radiating voussoirs. Three openings in left wall, with herringbone-tooled lintel, elliptical arch of voussoirs and round arch of radiating voussoirs. Interior: closed-string, open-well staircase with slender, spindle balusters and moulded, ramped-up handrail. In rear room to right of entrance passage, double-arched fireplace survives.

Listing NGR: NZ8870803953