Details
NEWARK ON TRENT
SK8053NW APPLETON GATE
619-1/9/23 (South East side)
29/09/50 Former Magnus School and adjoining
Headmaster's house & English School
(Formerly Listed as:
APPLETON STREET
Magnus School (Education Offices))
(Formerly Listed as:
NEWARK
APPLETON STREET
Museum (formerly part of Magnus
School))
GV II*
Former grammar school and adjoining headmaster's house and
English School, now the District Education Office and Newark
Museum. Founded 1529 by the Rev. Thomas Magnus and built 1532.
Headmaster's house 1817 by John Sadler Shepherd. English
School 1835. Addition 1835, raised 1902. Restored 1912.
Former grammar school, coursed rubble and brick with ashlar
dressings, and timber box framing with rendered nogging and
plain tile roof. Set back street front, to right of
Headmaster's house, has a 3-light mullioned window and to its
right a single light. Below, reset chamfered segmental pointed
street gateway with 2-leaf fielded panelled door. Above it, a
cove-cornered tablet inscribed "This Grammar School was
founded by the Revd. Thomas Magnus 1529". To its left, a
blocked Tudor arched doorway with hood mould.
Rear range, formerly main hall, has plinth and quoins. 2
storeys plus attics; 7 window range of cross mullioned and
single light windows, all chamfered. Above, 4 raking dormers,
the inner pair with 3 lights, the outer with 2. Below, to
left, C16 segmental pointed arch with hood mould and renewed
weatherstripped door. To its right, a cross mullioned window
and a smaller mullioned window, both chamfered. North east
gable has a restored gabled C16 chimney stack, brick and stone
with slated flanks, quoins and crowstepped gable with
kneelers. 3 restored octagonal coped shafts with traceried
panels.
Interior has at the north east end of the main hall a
box-framed overhanging room with arch braces. Below it, to
north west, a C16 elliptical headed doorway. Cross beam
ceiling. At the south west end, a framed newel winder stair
and a Tudor arched stone doorcase. Butt purlin principal
rafter roof with arched collars.
Headmaster's house, fronting the street, brick with stone
dressings and slate roof. Plinth, first and second floor
bands, wooden eaves cornice, coped parapet. Windows have
rubbed brick heads. 3 storeys; 5 window range of glazing bar
sashes, the central ones round headed and projecting under a
pediment. Above, 5 similar smaller windows. Moulded central
doorcase with pilasters and open pediment on curved brackets.
Fielded 6-panel door with fanlight, flanked by 2 sashes. Left
gable has a fielded 6-panel door with overlight and segmental
head, and mainly late C20 fenestration.
Interior has central stair well with enriched cornice on first
floor and wooden cantilever stair with stick balusters and
ramped scrolled handrail. Moulded doorcase with cornice and
paterae. Left front room has similar doorcases and marble
fireplace with Tuscan columns. Open well winder rear stair
with stick balusters.
Single storey English School, brick with hipped pantile roof,
has half-round dentillated eaves and single gable and single
side wall stacks. North west end, to street, has off-centre
porch, c1912, with shaped coped gable, crest and ball finials.
To its left, 4 small casements. North east side has a central
lean-to projection flanked by 2 segment headed glazing bar
sashes. South west side has 5 similar windows and to their
right, a blocked door.
Interior has deep coved cornice with latticed ventilators.
North east side has elliptical arched master's alcove with
fluted pilasters and moulded keystone.
2 storey addition, to south east, brick with pyramidal
pantile roof, has plinth, first floor band, second floor sill
band and segment headed windows. South east front has 2
glazing bar sashes and between them a datestone, 1902. Below,
central chamfered round headed doorway with blank fanlight and
fielded panelled door, flanked by single round headed sashes
with Gothic glazing bars. Over the door an inscribed
datestone, 1835. South west side has 2 glazing bar sashes on
each floor, the upper right one blank. North east side has
similar fenestration with both upper windows blank.
(Buildings of England: N Pevsner, revised E Williamson:
Nottinghamshire: Harmondsworth: 1979-: 194).
Listing NGR: SK8004253903
