Newport House

Detached seven-bay two-storey double-pile country house, extant 1810, on a U-shaped plan with single-bay full-height bows to end bays on segmental plans. Extended, pre-1838, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Vacant, 1942. Sold, 1945. Resold, 1985. Pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof behind parapet including half-octagonal slate roofs (end bays), roll moulded clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes centred on rendered chimney stacks having cut-limestone stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and concealed rainwater goods retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Creeper-covered "sparrow pecked" rendered walls with cut-limestone coping to parapets. Square-headed central door opening in tripartite arrangement approached by flight of four drag edged tooled cut-limestone steps, drag edged rusticated cut-limestone block-and-start surround supporting creeper-covered "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed pediment on fluted consoles framing timber panelled double doors having overlight with four-over-four timber sash sidelights without horns. Square-headed window openings with drag edged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing four-over-timber sash windows without horns having part exposed sash boxes (ground floor) or timber casement windows (first floor). Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled reveals or shutters on panelled risers with carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, and plasterwork cornice to ceiling; drawing room (west) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, cut-white marble Classical-style chimneypiece, and picture railing below plasterwork cornice to ceiling; dining room (east) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, Classical-style chimneypiece, and picture railing below plasterwork cornice to ceiling; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Set in landscaped grounds with boundary wall to perimeter having overgrown coping.