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Winthorpe Hall: The north front

Courtesy of Reg Baker

Winthorpe Hall
Winthorpe
England

Made of brick recessed in stone, the nameplate was photographed on the west fide of the stairway leading to the main entrance. Winthorpe Hall was begun in 1761 by Dr Robert Taylor of Newark, physician to George II. No architect is recorded, and by the time of his death in 1762, Taylor is said to have been all but bankrupt. It is probable, therefore, that when, in that year, the house was sold to Roger Pocklington (a Newark banker) the house was still incomplete. Once again, no architect is recorded, and it is possible that Pocklington himself modified the original plans to suit his own purposes. Pevsner describes the hall as follows: 'Of Mansfield Stone, five bays, one and a half storeys above a rusticated basement. On the entrance front (north) a double flight of stone steps up to a Venetian window with a Diocletian window above in the slightly projecting pedimented central bay. South and east fronts wash with deep canted bay. Entered from the north, the hall, with an Ionic screen, opens axially into a semi octagonal saloon in the centre of the south front. In the centre of the west fide the staircase (of the type with three balisters to a tread). Along nearly the whole of the east front, a room extending L-wise into the canted bay. Dull panelled ceilings throughout, richest in the saloon, where the chimneypiece has a scallop shell disgorging fruit from within a broken pediment.'

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