Listed Building: STENTON HOUSE (3.70.189)

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Grade II
Authority
EH LBS Legacy ID 242471
Date assigned 11 August 1961
Date last amended

Description

House. Early C19. Brick and stucco with stone dressings and hipped and gabled concrete tile roofs. Chamfered eaves with wooden gutters on brackets, 2 side wall stacks. 2 storeys plus attics with 2 storey wings. Symmetrical garden front has a pedimented central feature with a French window and flanking lights, and above it a renewed Venetian window. Above again, an altered round headed window. On either side, a canted 2 storey bay window with 3 plain sashes on each floor, those above being smaller. Asymmetrical street front has an off-centre pedimented recessed entrance bay with a stucco ground floor with plinth and cornice. Central 6-panel door flanked by single plain sashes. Above, a central plain sash and above again, a half-round window. Right wing, 4 windows, has 3 small sashes and to right a larger sash, all with glazing bars. Off-centre moulded stone doorcase with 6-panel door and overlight, flanked to left by 2 plain sashes, and to right by a larger glazing bar sash. Left wing has a large sash to left and a small dummy window to right. 2 plain sashes below. This building was formerly the home of the historian Sir Frank Stenton. (NCC/js)

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Location

Grid reference Centred SK 69971 53718 (19m by 21m)
Map sheet SK65SE
District Newark
Civil Parish Southwell, Newark

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Record last edited

Apr 29 2015 11:39AM

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