Norwood Park and the West Wing
NORWOOD PARK AND THE WEST WING
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1370212
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Norwood Park and the West Wing
- Statutory Address:
- NORWOOD PARK AND THE WEST WING
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1370212
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Norwood Park and the West Wing
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORWOOD PARK AND THE WEST WING
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:
- NORWOOD PARK AND THE WEST WING
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Nottinghamshire
- District:
- Newark and Sherwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Southwell
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 68717 54683
Details
In the entry for
SOUTHWELL NORWOOD PARK SK 6854 1919-0/5/219 Norwood Park and the west wing 07/08/52 GV II
The grade shall be amended to read
SK 6854 SOUTHWELL NORWOOD PARK
1919-0/5/219 Norwood Park and the west wing 07/08/52 GV II*
------------------------------------ SOUTHWELL
NORWOOD PARK SK6854 1919-0/5/219 Norwood Park and the West Wing 07/08/52 GV II
Country house. c1763, altered late C19. In the style of John Carr of York. Brick with stone dressings and hipped slate roofs. Plinth, first floor band, modillion eaves and pediment, low parapets, 2 ridge stacks. Windows are glazing bar sashes, those to the garden front with keystone lintels, those to the entrance front with rubbed brick heads. Central 3 storey main block, flanked by hipped 2 storey wings, and beyond, single 2-storey pavilions. Former entrance front, now garden front, has additional first floor sill band and a central Venetian window in a full-height round headed recess, flanked by 2 windows. Above, 5 smaller windows. Central moulded doorcase with pediment on scroll brackets, half-glazed door and fanlight. On either side, a small flanking window and beyond, 2 windows. At each side, a canted single storey bay window with 3 sashes. Each wing has a side wall stack and 3 windows. Left wing has, below, a French window flanked to left by a round headed window. Right wing has a late C19 full-width addition with a gabled projecting conservatory. Each pavilion has a central stack and a central round headed window in a full height round headed recess, and below, a simple Venetian window with round heads. Right pavilion has a set back addition to right with a single ground floor window. Former rear elevation, now entrance front, has brick bands and no pediment. Central canted 2 storey porch with 3 windows, flanked by 2 similar windows. Above, 5 smaller windows. Central pedimented doorcase with panelled door and fanlight, flanked by single windows, and beyond, 2 windows. Each wing has 3 windows. Left wing has, to left, a panelled door with fanlight. Each pavilion has the same fenestration as its garden front. Interior has a square stair well with coved ceiling, modillion and dentilled cornices and pyramidal roof light. Stone and timber cantilever stair with iron stick balusters and ramped and scrolled handrail. Ground floor doors have keystoned round heads, first floor doors have cornices. Former entrance hall, now study, has Adam style plaster ceiling with central oval panel, and fireplace in similar style. Entrance hall has enriched frieze and 2 moulded stone fireplaces. Drawing room has modillion cornice and enriched marble fireplace. Library, c1880, has coved ceiling and fitted bookcases and enriched pine fireplace with drapes. Cantilevered stone dogleg rear stair has shaped iron balusters and ramped handrail. Main first floor rooms have moulded cornices and Classical style fireplaces. (Buildings of England: E Williamson: Nottinghamshire: Harmondsworth: 1979-: 334).
Listing NGR: SK6871754683
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 242287
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 334
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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