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Newtown House

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Newtown House
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Detached five-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey over basement country house, extant 1839, on a rectangular plan centred on three-bay two-storey "bas-relief" breakfront originally with (single-storey) prostyle distyle pedimented portico to ground floor. Vacant, 1901. Leased, 1911. Now in ruins. Roof now missing. Part creeper- or ivy-covered lime rendered walls on lichen-spotted dragged cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on plinth with concealed flush quoins to corners. Outline of camber-headed central door opening with no fittings surviving. Square-headed flanking window openings in round-headed recesses with sills now missing, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds with no fittings surviving. Square-headed window openings (remainder) with some drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds.

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