Listed Building: HANDLEY HOUSE & ADJOINING FORMER HOUSE TO LEFT (3.54.293)

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Grade II
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EH LBS Legacy ID 385152
Date assigned 29 September 1950
Date last amended

Description

House and adjoining former house to left, now architects' offices. Late C17 and early C18, with late C18 and late C19 additions. Brick, with stone dressings and hipped slate roofs. Chamfered plinth and quoins, first floor band, wooden modillioned eaves, 2 ridge stacks. Windows are glazing bar sashes. 2 storeys plus attics; 5 window range with flat arches and keystones. Above, 2 low pitched gabled dormers. Central rusticated doorcase with multiple keystone and cornice. Renewed 2-leaf fielded 6-panel door with overlight, flanked by 2 sashes. 3 bay rear has 2 segment headed sashes and to left a 2 storey segmental bow window with parapet and a triple sash on each floor. Above, 3 gabled dormers. below, central half-glazed door with fanlight , flanked to right by a blocked door and a segment headed sash. Right side has 3 segment headed sashes. Below, a late C19 single storey addition with hipped and gabled slate roof, quoins, and external gable stack. 2 large segment headed triple sashes and in the north end, a similar sash. Left end has to right a single segment headed sash on each floor. Adjoining former house has plinth, dentillated eaves, and 3 ridge stacks. Windows are segment headed glazing bar sashes. 2 storeys; 5 window range, the central 3 projecting, with a blank and a larger saash to left. Below, central reeded wooden doorcase with moulded 6-panel door and overlight with C20 hood, flanked to right by 2 segment headed sashes. To left, a larger sash and a blank. Each end has 2 segment headed openings on each floor. Interior has central 4-flight open well stair with square reeded newels, moulded hand rail and vase and stem balusters. Principal rafter roof with single butt purlins and collars. Ground floor board room has C17 fielded panelling and C18 plaster cornice and ceiling. Early C19 marble fireplace with overmantel panel flanked by single fielded cupboard doors. First floor front room has beaded panelling with cornice and Classical corner fireplace with lobed overmantel panel. Right front room has cornice and matching marble fireplace c1830. Several fielded 6-panel doors. (EH)

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Location

Grid reference Centred SK 79824 54208 (38m by 25m)
Map sheet SK75SE
District Newark
Civil Parish Newark, Newark

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Record last edited

Apr 29 2015 11:39AM

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