The frontage of Newland House, a Grade II listed building,[1] which forms part of the northern elevation of the northern quadrangle
In the late 19th century and early 20th century meetings of Lindsey County Council were held at County Hall, Lincoln Castle.[2] After deciding the old county hall was inadequate for their needs, county leaders chose to procure a new county headquarters: the site selected they selected was the substantial grounds of a house known as Newland House which had been designed by William Hayward in the classical style and completed in 1824.[1] Council officials purchased the estate from the executors of the local coal merchant, William John Warrener.[3][4][a]
The new structure was built around two quadrangles. The first phase was the northern facade and quadrangle (which incorporated the original facade of Newland House)[b] and the second phase was the southern facade and quadrangle which was built with red brick and innovative concrete dressings.[9] The third phase involved inserting an Art Deco staircase into Newland House.[10]
The design for the main building involved a symmetrical main frontage with fifteen bays facing onto Newland with the end bays slighted projected forwards; the central section featured a portico with paired Doric Order columns and balustradedparapet; there were sash windows on the first and second floors with a stone surround which extended to both floors. Internally, the principal room was the council chamber.[11] Pevsner described the building as "all somewhat dry and academic".[9]
^Warrener's son was the artist, William T. Warrener, best known for being the subject of his friend Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's painting L'Anglais au Moulin Rouge (The Englishman at the Moulin Rouge) (1892).[5]
^The design of Newland House involved a symmetrical main frontage of five bays facing south; the central bay, which slightly projected forwards, featured a porch with Doric order columns, a sash window on the first floor and a pediment at roof level.[1] In the mid-1970s the chief executive of the county council sat in the large room behind the facade, but it was subsequently occupied by the legal department.[3]
^"Lindsey County Council". Sheffield Daily Telegraph Yorkshire, England. 29 July 1905. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
^ abcWheatley, Pearl. "Newland House"(PDF). Lincolnshire Past and Present Issue 92 Summer 2013. Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. p. 13. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
^Thomson, R.. 'Representing Montmartre', pp. 225-79, in, Thomson, R., Friches-Thory, C., &, Roquebert, A., (ed.), Toulouse-Lautrec, (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1991), p. 264-65
