Newsham Hall

NZ 11 SW NEWSHAM VILLAGE STREET (north side)

2/102 Newsham Hall (formerly listed as Newsham Hall Farmhouse)

4.2.69

GV II

Hall, now farmhouse. Late C17 - early C18, but of 2 builds and with later alterations. Coursed rubble, stone slate roofs. U-shaped plan, comprising main range with major wing on left projecting to rear, and minor wing to rear right. 2 storeys with basement to left wing, 2:3 bays to Village Street. All openings have segmental-pointed relieving arches. Main range to right: central part-glazed panelled door in raised ashlar surround. 16- pane sash windows in ashlar surrounds. End stacks, that to left external. To left, wing probably an addition: chamfered rusticated ashlar quoins to left, and to top at right. 4-pane sash windows in raised ashlar surrounds. Cavetto cornice. Hipped roof. Rear: ashlar surrounds to altered openings. Left return of left wing: flush quoins to left, chamfered rusticated ashlar quoins to right. Ashlar surrounds to windows: 2-light flat-faced mullion windows to basement and first floor; 16-pane sash in ashlar surround, formerly with flat-faced mullion, to ground floor. No cornice. Stacks at left end and in centre. In the early C19 the building housed a boarding school of the type criticised by Charles Dickens in Nicholas Nickleby.

Listing NGR: NZ1077910082