Swayfield House
SWAYFIELD HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1062777
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Swayfield House
- Statutory Address:
- SWAYFIELD HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1062777
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Swayfield House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWAYFIELD HOUSE, HIGH 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:
- SWAYFIELD HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- South Kesteven (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Swayfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 99128 22817
Details
SWAYFIELD HIGH STREET SK 92 SE
5/204 Swayfield House
II
House. Early C17, late C17, late C18 alterations and addition. Coursed limestone rubble, ashlar quoins and dressings. Slate roofs with single ridge and 2 gable stacks in ashlar with plinth and cornices. L-plan, 3 storey, 4 bay front, the third bay is advanced and separately gabled with chamfered plinth and first and second floor offsets. Modillion dentillated timber cornice to flanking bays. The off-centre C18 double doors are set in a moulded wooden surround with open porch having flat leaded hood on scrolled brackets. To left a glazing bar sash, to right a a tripartite sash with beyond a further glazing bar sash. To first floor are 3 glazing bar sashes with tripartite sash in advanced bay. To second floor are 3 shorter glazing bar sashes with a similar window set in a larger opening. The openings in the advanced bay have segmental heads with keystones, other windows have flat ashlar lintels with key blocks. In the gable end the original steeply pitched C17 roof line can be seen. Fire insurance plaque. At the rear is a late C18 lean-to 2 storey servants' range and a 2 storey late C17 wing with ingle nook and chamfered simply stopped beam. Interior retains late C18 panelled doors, shutters, and reveals. The stairs have plain balusters with wreathed handrail and carved string. The house plan contains 3 huge fireplaces from the C17 period, now blocked in. In the 2 reception rooms are fine Adam fire surrounds, in the right hand room with garlands, wheat ears, figures, central panel depicting classical harvest scene and contemporary mirror over, in the left hand room with vine and roundel decoration, flanked by semi-circular headed niches. The house was possibly a dower house to the Ancaster Estate in the C18.
Listing NGR: SK9912822817
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 194178
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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