Description

SOUTHWELL

WESTGATE
SK7053
1919-0/11/150 (North West side)
11/08/61 No.4
Sacrista Prebend

GV II

Former prebendal house, now the headmaster's house of the
Minster School. Front range built between 1774 and 1798 for
Nicholas Hutchinson, incorporating parts of an earlier house
in the rear wings. Brick, with stucco front, stone dressings
and slate roofs. Gothick style front. Front has plinth and
coped gables. Rear has partial stone plinth and chamfered
eaves. 5 gable and 2 ridge stacks. 2 storeys; 3 window range.
Symmetrical front has 2 gabled wings each with transomed
triple lancet, and between them, a double lancet, all with
hood moulds. Central canted flat roofed porch with pierced
balustrade and Tudor arched doorway flanked by single plain
sashes in lancet openings. Beyond, single canted hipped bay
windows with 5-light transomed lancets. Rear wing has, to
north, 2 glazing bar sashes on each floor, the lower ones
tripartite. Interior: entrance hall has dentilled cornice and
Tudor arch into porch. Dogleg stair and landing with cut
string, stick balusters and scrolled ramped handrail. Left
front room has vine trail frieze, cornice with oak leaves, and
shallow coved ceiling. Adam style wooden fireplace on south
wall. Other front rooms have panelled doors, some of them in
Gothick style. This building is one of the 9 remaining
prebendal houses formerly attached to Southwell Minster.
(Norman Summers: A Prospect of Southwell: London: 1974-:
94-96).

Listing NGR: SK7001653886

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26298240

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)