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[16778] Nottingham : 64 Castle Gate
Newdigate House, Castle Gate, Nottingham, c1674.
For Thomas Charlton of Chilwell.
Nottingham & Nottinghamshire United Services Club Limited. Registered Office.
Grade ll* listed.
In this house lived Marshal Tallart, from 1705 to 1711, while prisoner of war after the Battle of Blenheim 1704.
Newdigate House is contemporary with Nottingham Castle as we now know it.
The house was built for Thomas Charlton the younger, of Chilwell. He sold it in 1683 to Samuel Staples of Nottingham who leased it to Camille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard who was effectively kept prisoner in it from 1705 to 1711 after defeat in the Battle of Blenheim in 1704.
In 1716 the house was sold to Thomas Newdigate, the 6th son of Sir Richard Newdigate, 2nd Baronet of Arbury Hall, Warwickshire. He commissioned Francis Foulgham to make the wrought-iron screen and gates which survive at the front of the house, enclosing the court yard. It was lived in by subsequent members of the Newdigate family until 1790 when it was sold to Mrs Thomas Wright. She arranged for William Stretton to make some changes. The house was sold again in 1817.
In 1905 the building was being used by W Lee, Antiques Dealer, and was put up for sale. In 1915 the house was used by the Domestic Workers’ Sub-Committee of the War Relief Fund as an office. In 1960 it became the United Services Club.
Marshal Tallard was sent to live in Nottingham under parole, and, being a sensible man, he settled down to live a happy and useful life amid his erstwhile enemies.
His courtesy and innate goodness soon made him popular, and to him our forefathers owed many novel and useful innovations. He taught their wives how to make white bread and how to prepare salads, and he taught the men how to grow roses. The greatest gift we owe to him is celery. He had known the plant in France, and sadly missed it in England, where its use was unknown. He found it growing wild in the marshes at Lenton, and cultivated it in his garden, which still remains.
[16778] Nottingham : 64 Castle Gate
Newdigate House, Castle Gate, Nottingham, c1674.
For Thomas Charlton of Chilwell.
Nottingham & Nottinghamshire United Services Club Limited. Registered Office.
Grade ll* listed.
In this house lived Marshal Tallart, from 1705 to 1711, while prisoner of war after the Battle of Blenheim 1704.
Newdigate House is contemporary with Nottingham Castle as we now know it.
The house was built for Thomas Charlton the younger, of Chilwell. He sold it in 1683 to Samuel Staples of Nottingham who leased it to Camille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard who was effectively kept prisoner in it from 1705 to 1711 after defeat in the Battle of Blenheim in 1704.
In 1716 the house was sold to Thomas Newdigate, the 6th son of Sir Richard Newdigate, 2nd Baronet of Arbury Hall, Warwickshire. He commissioned Francis Foulgham to make the wrought-iron screen and gates which survive at the front of the house, enclosing the court yard. It was lived in by subsequent members of the Newdigate family until 1790 when it was sold to Mrs Thomas Wright. She arranged for William Stretton to make some changes. The house was sold again in 1817.
In 1905 the building was being used by W Lee, Antiques Dealer, and was put up for sale. In 1915 the house was used by the Domestic Workers’ Sub-Committee of the War Relief Fund as an office. In 1960 it became the United Services Club.
Marshal Tallard was sent to live in Nottingham under parole, and, being a sensible man, he settled down to live a happy and useful life amid his erstwhile enemies.
His courtesy and innate goodness soon made him popular, and to him our forefathers owed many novel and useful innovations. He taught their wives how to make white bread and how to prepare salads, and he taught the men how to grow roses. The greatest gift we owe to him is celery. He had known the plant in France, and sadly missed it in England, where its use was unknown. He found it growing wild in the marshes at Lenton, and cultivated it in his garden, which still remains.