Listed Building: OSSINGTON HOTEL & ADJ GARDEN WALLS & SUMMERHOUSE (3.54.61)

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Grade II*
Authority
EH LBS Legacy ID 384913
Date assigned 19 May 1971
Date last amended

Description

Former temperance coffee house, now an hotel, and adjoining garden walls and summerhouse. 1882, by Ernest George & Peto for Viscountess Ossington. Brick, with blue brick and stone dressings and plain tile roof with single prominent side wall, rear wall and ridge stacks, all coped. Vernacular Revival style. Plinth, pargetted frieze, moulded wooden eaves. 2 storeys plus attics; 6 window range of square oriel windows of 12 lights, with wooden mullions and transoms. Between the fourth and fifth, an inscribed sundial. To right, a large wrought iron bracket lamp. Above, to left, 3 linked half-timbered gables, each with 7 casements, and panelled gables. 6 bay elliptical arched open arcade, the right opening being a carriage entrance. To left, a half-glazed door with sidelights flanked by single 4-light glazing bar windows fronted by railings, all with overlights. To their right, 2 doors with sidelights, the left one with pargetted tympanum, the right with overlight. Right gable has 2 square cross-mullioned oriel windows and balustraded gallety, and above, a close-studded gable with an 8-light cross mullioned window. Below, an opening to the arcade and to its right a carriage entrance with wrought iron gates, both elliptical arched. Left end has an angle buttress with inscribed dated panel. Gallery and 3 oriel windows similar to right end. Above, close studded double gable with two 8-light cross mulluioned windows. Two 4-light glazed doors with overlights and to right, beyond boundary wall, smaller opening to arcade, all elliptical arched. Rear wing, single storey plus attics, has a ridge stack. 9-bay glazed arcade with turned wooden posts and arch braces. Above, 4 hipped dormers with 3-light casements and to right a larger dormer with a 4-light cross mullioned window. Curved garden wall on river side, dressed stone with brick bands and rounded coping, has 2 half-round turrets and elaborate wrought iron gate with overthrow and lantern. Square wooden summerhouse at the end has hipped tile roof and 2 segment headed openings with turned wooden posts. Smaller curved wall at the town end has chamfered coping and plain gateway. Interior has an L-plan first floor room with panelled dado and pargetted frieze and cross beam ceiling, moulded cases to doors and windows. Other first floor rooms have moulded cornices and one pedimented corner fireplace. Cantilevered concrete open well stair with wrought iron balustrade. Attics have principal rafter roof with arch braces, panelled walls and fitted benches, and fireplace with overmantel. (EH)

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Location

Grid reference Centred SK 79733 54117 (56m by 61m)
Map sheet SK75SE
District Newark
Civil Parish Newark, Newark

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Record last edited

Nov 20 2017 3:15PM

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