Somersby House
SOMERSBY HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1063648
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Somersby House
- Statutory Address:
- SOMERSBY HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1063648
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Somersby House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOMERSBY HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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:
- SOMERSBY HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- East Lindsey (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Greetham with Somersby
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 34286 72597
Details
SOMERSBY CHURCH LANE TF 37 SW (south side)
2/71 Somersby House (formerly 25.10.51 listed as Somersby Rectory)
G.V. II *
Rectory, now house. Mid C18 with later C18 and C19 additions, c.1975 alterations. Colourwashed red brick. Pantile roof. 2 red brick gable stacks. Brick coped gables. First floor band. Double ridge roof. 2 storeys plus cellar, 5 bays. Single segmental arched cellar opening to the left. Doorway with 6 fielded panel door and traceried fanlight flanked by single slender Doric pilasters with entablature and open pediment. C19 gabled hood with orb finial. To the left are 4 cambered arched glazing bar sashes. To the right a single small gabled hood with bell under. Above are 3 similar sashes under flat heads, that on the right flanked by single small C20 sashes. Attached to the right is a similar C19 single storey plus attic, 2 bay wing, half hipped to the right. First floor band. 2 C20 casements. Attic has a single half dormer with hipped pantile roof and single tripartite casement. Attached to the left is a similar wing with single red brick ridge stack. 2 C20 tripartite casements with 2 similar half dormers above. Rear. The left single bay is single storey plus attic, the single bay to the right is late C18, of 2 storeys with coped gables, left gable stack and dentil eaves, further right are 2 mid C18 bays being lower 2 storeys, slightly set back with coped right gable with red brick stack, moulded eaves and first floor bands. On the far right are 3 C20 single storey plus attic bays replacing the demolished wing designed by George Tennyson. Having from left to right a single segmental arched glazing bar Yorkshire sash, a 2 storey canted bay being C20 to the ground floor and C19 to the first floor with 3 glazing bar sashes, 2 large segmental arched glazing bar sashes and in the C20 wing 2 giant order pointed arched panels which break the roof line and are gabled over having 3 glazing bar sashes with concrete lintels. Above in the attic is a single half dormer with 2 glazing bar sashes, to the right, in the canted bay, are 3 glazing bar sashes, further right are 2 glazing bar sashes with ornate wrought iron balcony to that on the right. In the C20 bays are 2 pointed arched glazing bar sashes with intersecting tracery. Interior. Re-set single flight staircase with turned balusters, tapering fluted newel and carved tread ends. Balusters also to landing.
Listing NGR: TF3428672597
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 195997
- 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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