Place Newton And Attached Garden Walls On Each Side

This is a small country house, dating to 1714, with significant alterations in the early 19th century and a further extension in the later 19th century. Originally built for the Strickland family, it is located with attached garden walls on either side. The front porch was rebuilt around 1972, reusing 19th-century components, and the chimney stacks were also rebuilt at that time.

The house is constructed of orange-red brick in a random bond, with sandstone ashlar quoins and dressings. Timber doorcases and oriel windows are also present, along with a red brick extension in an English garden wall bond. The roofs are slate-covered. The garden walls are of red brick in English garden wall bond, topped with sandstone coping. The entrance front features a chamfered plinth. The central, open-pedimented three-bay section is flanked by full-height, three-window canted bays, with a two-storey, single-bay extension to the right. A glazed and panelled porch with square piers stands centrally, containing a door with six raised and fielded panels set between pilaster jambs with scalloped imposts. An oriel window with a twelve-pane sash sits above the porch. Other ground-floor and first-floor windows are twelve-pane sashes with stone sills and grooved wedge lintels. An attic lunette with an eight-pane window is set within the pediment. A chamfered plinth band and raised eaves band are also visible. Rainwater heads dated 1837 are located at the angles of the bay windows. Chimneys rise from the base of the hipped roof, and ridge chimneys are positioned to the left and right of the centre. The canted bays have half-hexagonal roofs. An extension to the right incorporates a pivoting window with a painted timber lintel on the ground floor. A further extension to the right is not considered to be of special architectural or historic interest. The garden wall is approximately 1.3 metres high, raising to 3 metres at the right over a round-arched gateway with a board gate; it has chamfered coping. A square terminal pier at the left end features a cornice and pyramidal cap.

The garden front mirrors the entrance front, but without the porch, and includes a two-storey, two-window extension. Lion mask guttering clamps are present. An extension to the left has a blocked doorway, and tall, three-light, small-pane horizontal-sliding sashes with painted timber lintels are found to both floors. The left return features a blind recessed lunette in the gable end. A round-arched gateway is set at the right end of the garden wall.

Inside, a round-arched Doric screen is located at the foot of the staircase. The restored open-string, open-well staircase has ashlar treads, cast-iron clustered balusters, a moulded handrail, and rises through the first floor to the attics.