Watch House, Newton Church, Newton Church Road, Newton Village

The Watch House, located on Newton Church Road in Newton Village, dates from around 1828 and is a single-storey rectangular structure. It is built from rock-faced and droved random sandstone, featuring polished margins, ashlar skews, and chimney quoins. The roof has heavy cut stone ridging, and modern re-pointing has been applied to all elevations.

On the east elevation, the gable end has projecting margined side quoins to the right, adjacent to the entrance pier of the churchyard on the left. The central entrance doorway has stop-chamfered projecting margins and a replacement plank door. The south elevation forms an integral part of the boundary wall and has an adjoining ashlar entrance pier to the right. The west elevation is a plain gable end with heavy plain skews and a gablehead chimney stack that features a prominent ashlar drip course, projecting ashlar strip quoins with rendered in-fill on each elevation, and a shaped ashlar neck cope without cans. The north elevation has a low wall with a blind central window that has projecting ashlar margins and a top lintel that abuts the roofline, along with projecting margins to the side quoins.

There is no original glazing remaining, and the roof is steeply pitched with piended graded slate, with the skews rising high above the roof level.

The interior was not seen in 2000. The boundary walls consist of random rubble with slab coping on top. There are pairs of square ashlar gate piers in the south and west walls, featuring a raised bead course below stepped overhanging plinths and square copes with pyramid caps on top. Replacement timber gates are present at both entrances.