Newton Hall
NEWTON HALL, TOWN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127815
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Newton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- NEWTON HALL, TOWN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127815
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Newton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- NEWTON HALL, TOWN STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- NEWTON HALL, TOWN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 43339 49036
Details
TL 4349 NEWTON TOWN STREET (South East Side)
22/185 Newton Hall
II
Country-house c.1909 by F. Foster for Sir Charles Walston Now offices. Red brick with hipped, slate and leaded roofs and tall, internal stacks with recessed panels to sides and projecting capping. Wood, modillion eaves cornice. In Queen Anne Revival Style. Two storeys and attics. Four hipped dormers. Symmetrical main facade in eleven bays, including the projecting end wings. The three centre bays also project slightly, and are surmounted by a pediment and framed by rusticated quoins. The pediment has an elliptical window with an enriched terracotta surround above heraldic devices, also in terracotta. Central doorway with doorcase of engaged Doric columns and segmental pediment. Round headed arch to doorway with double doors of raised and fielded panels. Half round fanlight with swagged glazing bars. Raised key blocks and flat gauged brick arches to flush frame hung sashes in open boxing, painted white. Of fifteen panes at first floor and eighteen at ground floor. The corners of the main range have giant Ionic corner pilasters. The principal entry in the east side has a pedimented Doric portico. There is a rectangular fanlight with late C18 glazing bars above double doors, panelled. The same side of the house has an Adam style Venetian window with fan over the arch. Interior: A number of the rooms have bolection moulded panelling, plaster ceilings of various styles, including early and late C17 and late C18. There are carved fireplaces surrounds, including one with caryatids at first floor, and others, bolection moulded and of marble. The staircase bay is in two stages with a moulded cornice between. The ground stage is Doric with a screen and round headed doorcases. The first floor is Ionic with fluted columns to a screen and landing and shouldered doorcases with enriched pulvinated frieze. The open-string staircase is in two flights and a landing with slender, twisted balusters, fluted newels, moulded and swept rail and scroll tread ends. There is a panelled dado. Pevsner: Buildings of England p.444 Burkes and Savills: Guide to the Country Houses (p.23)
Listing NGR: TL4333949036
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51589
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 444
Kenworthy Browne, J, Reid, P, Sayer, M, Watkin, D, Burkes and Savills Guide to Country Houses in East Anglia, Vol. 3, (1981), 23
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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