Newby Hall And Area Wall To North

Newby Hall is a large house, now subdivided, with an area wall to the north. The building features a large panel over the front door that displays the late 17th-century coat-of-arms of the Nevinson family, along with later alterations. The structure includes some blocks and is built of coursed, squared rubble with dressed copings. It has 45-degree graduated slate roofs with stone copings. The hall and cross wings are complemented by a canted stair wing at the rear.

The house is two storeys high and consists of eight bays arranged in a 2:4:2 pattern. The hall has a central panelled door set within an architrave, flanked by two 2-light windows on the left and one 2-light and a small single-light window on the right. Above the door, the coat-of-arms is framed in a corniced surround. The first floor features three 3-light windows and a small single-light window, all with continuous hoodmoulds on both floors.

The wings have a 3-light window on each floor at the inner returns, with a chamfered jamb visible on the ground floor at the junction of the hall and the west wing, indicating an earlier, larger window. Each gable end has a 2-light window on both floors, with blocked attic windows above. All windows are set in chamfered surrounds under hoodmoulds, retaining original chamfered mullions, and most are square-leaded. The rear and outer returns of the wings have similar windows, with some blocked openings and inserted doors and windows. The building features stepped stone mid and end chimneys.

Inside, there is a large segment-arched fireplace on the ground floor of the hall. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (R.C.H.M.) from 1936 notes the presence of 17th-century panelling in the ground and first-floor rooms, with a moulded surround dating to around 1700 at the attic fireplace. Additionally, there is a low retaining wall, approximately 3 feet high, on the north side of the sunken area in front of the entrance, situated between the cross-wings.