Butterwick House
BUTTERWICK HOUSE, NORTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1051068
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Butterwick House
- Statutory Address:
- BUTTERWICK HOUSE, NORTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1051068
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Butterwick House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUTTERWICK HOUSE, NORTH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BUTTERWICK HOUSE, NORTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Butterwick
- National Grid Reference:
- SE8360406016
Details
SE 80 NW
8/150
WEST BUTTERWICK
NORTH STREET
(east side)
No 26 (Butterwick House)
II
House. C18 origins, rebuilt 1833 for Capt. William Sowden Collinson.
Alterations and additions of 1920s. Brick, stuccoed to front, left return
and rear, and incised in imitation of ashlar. Pebbledashed to right return.
Sandstone dressings. Concrete tile roof. T-shaped on plan: 2-room, central
entrance-hall west front, 2-room rear wing with outshuts and C20 extensions
to each side. 2 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical. Plinth. Side bays break
forward. Entrance has Doric doorcase with twin pilasters carrying
entablature with moulded cornice and hood. Step to C20 part-glazed panelled
door and overlight with margin lights in reveal. French windows to either
side with margin lights, in reveals and architraves with entablatures and
hoods. Left and right angles have frieze and cornice at first-floor level,
with first floor stepped-in above. First floor: 2-light casements with
margin lights in reveals and architraves with projecting sills on moulded
brackets. Stepped frieze and moulded corniced gutter. Rainwater heads to
angles dated 1833. Hipped roof. Side wall stacks with plinths, moulded
cornices. Left return: angle pilasters to ground floor carrying moulded
ashlar first-floor string course. Pairs of blind window panels to each
floor with sills. Right return has C20 fenestration. Rear wing: east end,
overlooking River Trent, has full-height canted bay with moulded stone
first-floor balcony carried on moulded brackets, with C20 railings and
first-floor glazing to original window with moulded cornice; modillioned
gutter, hipped roof, stack similar to south front. Interior. Open-well
staircase with ramped moulded handrail, plain stick balusters, turned newels
and profiled cheek-pieces. Moulded cornices to hall and main rooms, deep
coved cornice to first-floor rear room. Round arch to first-floor passage
with fluted soffit. 6-fielded-panel and 6-beaded-panel doors in architraves
throughout; panelled window shutters to front range. W Read, History of the
Isle of Axholme, 1858, pp 353-7; D L Roberts, "Lincolnshire and Humberside",
in J Hadfield (ed), The Shell Book of English Villages, 1980, p 379.
Listing NGR: SE8360406016
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 165214
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hadfield, J, The Shell Book of English Villages, (1980), 379
Read, W, History of the Isle of Axholme, (1858), 353-357
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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