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Amcott House, 40 Grove Street, Retford, c 1960s?

Grove Street
Retford
England

Information from www.heritageopendays.org.uk: Built about 1750 the property was largely remodelled about 1780 when it became known as Amcott House after its owner Sir Wharton Amcotts. The house comprised a dining room, drawing room, breakfast room and library on the ground floor, with 4 bedrooms and 2 dressing rooms on the first floor. The servants' quarters were in the attic and the kitchen service wing. Remarkably, over the last 200 years the building and fittings have not been greatly altered. The house has a centrally placed front doorway of the Venetian style. Inside there are some fine Adam style plaster ceilings with two Italianate wall paintings in the Drawing room. The main staircase has a wrought iron balustrade. The building is now the Bassetlaw Museum run by Bassetlaw District Counciland has a collection which include local history, archaeology, decorative and fine art, agriculture, costume and textiles. The museum has recently been refurbished and extended with excellent display and educational facilities.

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Retford Library