The County Offices is a municipal building in Newland,

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in the county of

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in England. It is the headquarters of

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History

In the late 19th century and early 20th century meetings of

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were held at County Hall, Lincoln Castle. 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

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and completed in 1824. Council officials purchased the estate from the executors of the local

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, William John Warrener. Construction started with the demolition of everything except the original facade of Newland House in 1926. The new building was designed by Scorer and Gamble in a Neo-Georgian style and was officially opened by the chairman of the county council, George Edward Heneage, 2nd Baron Heneage, in 1932. 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) and the second phase was the southern facade and quadrangle which was built with red brick and innovative concrete dressings. The third phase involved inserting an

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staircase into Newland House. 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

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columns and

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; 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. Pevsner described the building as "all somewhat dry and academic". Following the implementation of the

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, the building became the headquarters of the newly created

in 1974.

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