Building record 491/0/28 - Newnham Hall

Country house. Early C19. Stuccoed brick, hipped slate roof, various rendered brick internal stacks.

{1} Country house. Early C19. Stuccoed brick, hipped slate roof, various rendered brick internal stacks. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys; 5-window range. Entrance front has part-glazed door in central flat-roofed porch with unfluted Greek Doric columns to front, plain entablature and side walls with windows either side with round-arched heads. Large 12-pane sash window to first floor above flanked by smaller 8-pane sash to right and similar long window to left. Outer bays break forward slightly and have 12-pane sashes to ground and first floors. Plinth. Storey band inset with large stucco roundels to outer bays between ground and first floor windows with laurel wreath to left, and 3 roses to right. Moulded eaves cornice. Stuccoed 2-storey service wing to left. Single-storey brick quadrant corridor and billiard room to right added c.1880 with loggia to rear. Garden front has tripartite window. 2-storey segmental bow to right with 15-pane sashes to ground floor, 12-pane to first. Interior has open-well staircase with slender turned balusters.

{4} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 4/136 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F06 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN44900.

<3> 1933, Famous Hunts and Their Countries: The Pytchley, p.189-92 (unchecked) (Journal). SNN41706.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Newnham (Photographs). SNN112905.

Record last edited

Feb 2 2022 12:52PM