Description

SOUTHWELL

WESTGATE
SK6953
1919-0/10/195 (North West side)
07/08/52 No.8
Dunham House

GV II

Former prebendal house, now offices. Early C17. Remodelled and
refenestrated for Sherbrooke Lowe c1780. Rear range and
service wing and front porch for George Barrow c1805. Mid C20
office addition to south west. Brick, stuccoed, with stone
dressings and hipped and gabled slate roofs. 4 ridge, 2 gable
and 2 side wall stacks. Symmetrical front, 2 storeys, 7
windows, has plinth, moulded parapet and coped gables. 7
glazing bar sashes. Central square porch with segment headed
opening, string course and partly balustraded parapet,
covering a 6-panelled door with moulded surround. On either
side, 3 glazing bar sashes, 2 to the far right being larger.
Irregular garden front, early C19, has plinth, string course
and parapet. Windows are mainly glazing bar sashes. 2 storeys,
12 windows. To left, two 2-storey semicircular bow windows,
that to the left being larger. Each has 3 sashes on each
floor. In the centre, a 2 window range with a curved end, and
sashes of different sizes. Below, 2 French windows. To right,
a slightly projecting wing with 3 windows, the central one
with a cast iron balcony. Below, 2 plain sashes and to right a
flat roofed C20 addition. Interior has entrance hall with
modillion cornice and elliptical arched opening to stairwell.
Cantilevered dogleg stair and landing, c1805, with cut string
and foliated cast iron and wrought iron stick balusters.
Scrolled and ramped handrail. Principal rooms to garden front
have palmette and vine trail cornices. Late C17 principal
rafter roof of re-used timber, with double purlins and
collars. This building is one of the 9 remaining prebendal
houses formerly attached to Southwell Minster.
(Norman Summers: A Prospect of Southwell: London: 1974-:
82-85).

Listing NGR: SK6997253806

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26298215

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover