Southwell CA Appraisal.pdf - Newark and Sherwood District Council

Buildings
The number of listed buildings and unlisted buildings of local character in this area is high. Buildings
tend to be large, well proportioned and individually designed. Most have brick boundary walls.
13 Church Street Cranfield House Normanton Prebend
Of the sixteen original prebendal houses, nine survive in the form of a house and plot. The table below
highlights their new name, if they survive, and those that no longer exist.
Prebendal Houses and Plots
No. Old Name
Present Name
1 Oxton II No longer existing
2 Altera Prebenda de Oxton (Oxton I) Cranfield House, Church Street
3 Sacrist or Sextons Prebend Sacrista Prebend, 4 Westgate
4 Woodborough Woodborough, 31 Church Street
5 Norwell Overhall 9-11 Church Street
6 Palace Hall in Norwell or Norwell Palishall 13 Church Street and adjacent car park
7 3 rd Prebend in Norwell No longer existing
8 Dunham Dunham House, 8 Westgate
9 North Muskham North Muskham, 23 Church Street
10 South Muskham South Muskham, Church Street
11 Halton als Halloughton No longer existing (was in village of
Halloughton)
12 Beckingham No longer existing
13 Normanton Prebend Normanton Prebend
14 Eaton No longer existing
15 Rampton, 6 Westgate Rampton, 6 Westgate
16 North Leverton No longer existing
The prebendal house of Oxton II (the Red Prebend) was demolished as recently as the early 1970s
to make way for extensions to the Saracen’s Head Hotel. The present buildings are mostly
replacements on the same sites, dating from the late C18. Most of the original houses would have
been timber framed and fragments of the earlier buildings survive in some of these later buildings.
There are some re-used roof timbers at Dunham House and some evidence of an earlier stone
building at Norwell Overhall (9-11 Church Street). Unfortunately the roof at South Muskham
Prebend was destroyed by fire in September 2001 and was the best example a crown post roof in
Nottinghamshire. The roof structure has now been restored.
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