Newick Park

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In the entry for:- NEWICK NEWICK PARK TQ 41 NW 6/114 Newick Park 17.3.52 II

The entry shall be amended to read:-

TQ 41 NW NEWICK NEWICK PARK 6/114 Newick Park II*

Large house. Core is a house of C1560 built for an iron master with a date of 1563 or 1568 said to be one of the cellar walls and 1584 on the foundations but extensively rebuilt in the early C18 with 2 semi-circular bays added to the east front between 1765 and 1783. Entrance or east front is of 2 to 3 storeys faced in Roman cement with slate roof and 2 brick chimneystacks. Central part has 5 sashes (4 of them paired) and projecting rusticated porch with radiating fanlight and 6 panelled door. To the left is a 3-storey late C18 or early C19 curved bay with 3 sashes with glazing bars intact and band between 1st and 2nd floor. To the right is a 2-storey curved bay with 3 sashes, the ground floor ones full height, originally a ballroom and to the extreme right a 1-storey addition with 4 18-pane sashes. South or garden front is of 3-storeys 5 windows. The 2 lower floors are rusticated. The 2nd floor has 5 10-pane sashes, the other floors have 12-pane sashes. Ground floor has bay window. Keystone to central 2nd floor window. Giant pilaster to left hand side. Attached to the right hand side is a C1920 summer house of 1-storey cement with flat roof supported on 4 Doric columns. West front has mainly sash windows but the 2nd floor retains a late C16 3-light mullioned window on the right hand side. Left hand side has 3-storey canted bay and ground floor has 5-light canted bay having round-headed arches with keystones. Attached to the north is an C18 2-storey brick service wing with tiled roof; 3 brick chimneystacks and C20 casements. Interior has Entrance Hall with large late C17 stone fireplace with eared architrave and frieze of birds with fishtails. The adjoining room has a later C18 Bossi fireplace of inlaid marble with painted cherubs, urns land antique scenes. The Study has early C20 panelling and a 4 centred arched stone fireplace. The Library has a very large C1720 stone fireplace with bolection moulding and large brackets and library shelves and panelling of C1920. The Dining Room, formerly a ballroom has a late C18 marble fireplace with urn, sunflower and braziers design and cast iron firegrate. The cornice has a leaf and tendril design. The Staircase Hall has a cantilevered staircase with cast iron balustrading and mahogany handrail but is probably early C20. 1st floor has a part of the late C16 frame visible, a ceiling beam with 2 inch chamber, filler and run out stop. One bedroom has a priesthole/cupboard with butterfly hinges. Fan-centred arched stone fireplace. The Green Sitting Room on this floor has a marble fireplace with bolection moulding and the Green Room has an early Victorian fireplace with reeded surround and central relief panel of basket of fruit. The Longford Room has a late C18 Bossi marble fireplace with marble inlay pilasters and paterae. Cellar has slate shelves for wine storage. Service wing has staggered purlin roof. At the end of the C17 the house was owned by Francis Millington and was inherited by Baron Marsell of Margham. In 1750 it was inherited by Louisa Marsell, then it passed through the hands of the Fortescues, Sir Elijah Impey, Chief Justice of Bengal and an associate of Warren Hasting lived here from 1794-1809. In 1812 it was owned by James Powell whose grandson was Thomas Baden Powell.

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NEWICK NEWICK PARK 1. 5206 Newick Park TQ 41 NW 6/114 17.3.52. II

2. Exterior early C18, with some C16 work inside, later faced with cement. Three storeys. Nine windows. At the south end of the front is a curved bay of 3 windows on all floors and at the north end a similar but more bulging curved bay of 2 storeys only, though it rises through the whole height of the house. The latter, and probably the former, were added at the end of the C18. Stringcourse above the first floor, (but above the ground floor in the north bay). Parapet to the bays. Slate roof. Glazing bars intact. Later rusticated porch containing round-headed doorway with semi-circular fanlight and double doors of 10 fielded panels. Ground floor addition of 4 windows to the north. The south front has 5 windows. Ground and first floors rusticated with pilasters flanking the front. Large later bay added on ground floor. Sir Elijah Impey, Chief Justice of Bengal and an associate of Warren Hastings, lived here from 1794-1809.

Listing NGR: TQ4215219504

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Sources

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 14 East Sussex,

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