Newton Court, including attached stable buildings and screen wall to stable court is a Grade II* listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 August 2005. House.
Newton Court, including attached stable buildings and screen wall to stable court
- WRENN ID
- inner-thatch-willow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 August 2005
- Type
- House
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Newton Court, including the attached stable buildings and screen wall to the stable court, is a Grade II* listed building. It is constructed from coursed, squared, semi-ashlar red sandstone with Forest of Dean stone dressings, and features Welsh slate roofs that are only partially visible from the ground. The building is a large rectangular block facing west, with a service court and stables on the north side, and a screen wall projecting north from the north-west corner of the main house.
Designed in a Neo-Classical style, the building has three storeys and a three-bay entrance front on the west side. The central entrance is adorned with a Tuscan porch and is flanked by full-height semi-circular bows, each containing three windows. These windows are 20th-century three-light mullion-and-transom windows with voussoir heads, while the plain central bay has two-light windows. The façade features bands between the floors, rusticated quoins, a deep cornice, a parapet, and a hipped roof that slopes back from each bay.
The right return elevation (south) mirrors this treatment but includes a central semi-circular bay, with plain windows to the right and blind recesses to the left. The windows here are six-over-six sashes, with smaller three-over-six sashes on the top floor. The left-hand return (north) overlooks the service yard and has fewer windows, featuring a very tall arch-headed window for the stair compartment. This elevation is made of coursed sandstone rubble and has two massive wall stacks.
There is a two-storey kitchen wing attached, which has tripartite sash windows and a hipped roof. This wing connects to a two-storey stable wing that features an arched recess with a tripartite sash on the ground floor and a large six-over-six pane sash above. The screen wall attached to the north-west corner of the house is three bays long, with arched fruit tree recesses and square-headed recesses in the pilaster buttresses between. It has a cornice and parapet and measures approximately 20 meters long and 7 meters high.
Details of the interior were not available at the time of resurvey, but Newman reports a groin-vaulted corridor leading to the main rooms and staircase. The staircase features alternating panels of wrought iron and timber balustrading, which is an unusual feature. The main rooms are decorated in an understated Neo-Classical style.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.