Description

SD 6950
18/51

NEWTON,
NEWTON VILLAGE
Salisbury Hall

16.11.1954

(Formerly listed as Salisbury Hall, (formerly Newton Old Hall))

GV II

House, early C18th. Pebbledashed rubble with sandstone dressings and slate
roof. Double-pile plan. 2 storeys with attic, 4 bays. Cross windows on
the 1st floor, mullioned with 3 lights on the ground floor, all rebated and
chamfered with tooling visible. The continuous drip course over the ground
floor is truncated part way across the left-hand unit. The 3 right-hand bays
have central entry with end stacks, the door having a chamfered surround and
battlemented lintel. The ground-floor window of the left-hand bay has been
extended upwards by the re-use of another 5-light window to form a mullioned
and transomed window. To its left is a door with plain stone surround. The
chimney caps, on the gables and to the right of the left-hand bay, are of
ashlar with moulded copings. The right-hand gable has 2 one-light chamfered
attic windows with segmental heads. Interior. The middle room has a wide
fireplace with moulded voussoirs and jambs and segmental head. At the rear
of the room is a double door of raised and fielded panels. The stair, at
the centre of the rear of the house, has 3 flights around an open well. It
has a closed string, square newels with sunken mouldings, ball finials,
turned balusters, and some pendants remaining. A dog-leg continuation of
the stair once led to the attic, but is now blocked. On the flat floor are
3 oak doors with raised and fielded panels.

Listing NGR: SD6966250491

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26644178

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)