Listed Building: ARCHWAY HOUSE (3.16.1)

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Grade II
Authority
EH LBS Legacy ID 242213
Date assigned 11 August 1961
Date last amended

Description

Hunting lodge. Later a school and now 2 dwellings. 1844. By Hurst and Moffatt for the Duke of Portland. Gothic style. Near-replica of the Gatehouse at Worksop Priory. Ashlar with plain tile roof, c.1983. Chamfered and moulded plinth, first floor and eaves bands, parapet and moulded coped gables with dogtooth. 2 grouped ridge stacks. 2 storeys plus attics, 3 bays. Symmetrical H-plan. 2 corner and 2 intermediate buttresses each side. Windows are Decorated style lancets with square heads in segmental headed openings with hood moulds and stops. North and south fronts have central pointed archway with clustered shaft responds, flanked by single projecting bay windows with diagonal buttresses, coped gables and tympani containing sculptured hares. Each has a triple lancet with flowing tracery. Above, central transomed 6 light lancet flanked by single niches with figures. Beyond, a double lancet. Above again, central gable containing niche with figure and above it, a trefoil light. Identical east and west ends have each a central studded door with hood mould. Above, round plaque with hood mould and border inscribed (to east) 'Tu secanda Marmora locas sub ipsum funus' and (to west) 'Sepulchri Immemor Struis Domos'. Each contains a shield inscribed 'A D 1842 D P Aet. 74'. Below central archway, moulded timber ceiling with arch braces on corbels. Interior has winder stairs, 7 doors with lancet panels, Classical style hob grate in chamfered surround. Central hall has principal rafter roof with arch braces carrying matchboarded pointed vault. (NCC/js)

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Grid reference Centred SK 60702 65865 (19m by 13m)
Map sheet SK66NW
District Newark
Civil Parish Clipstone, Newark

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Apr 29 2015 11:39AM

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