Kirby House

KIRBY HOUSE, TETNEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1161115
Date first listed:
18-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:
Kirby House
Statutory Address:
KIRBY HOUSE, TETNEY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1161115
Date first listed:
18-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:
Kirby House
Statutory Address 1:
KIRBY HOUSE, TETNEY ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
KIRBY HOUSE, TETNEY ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
North East Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Humberston
National Grid Reference:
TA 30896 04485

Details

TA 30 SW HUMBERSTON TETNEY ROAD (west side)

8/32 Kirby House - II House.' C17, encased in late C18-C19, with contemporary wing to left and later C19 outshuts to rear. C20 re-thatching and internal alterations. Timber frame encased in brick, with brick additions, whitewashed throughout. Thatched roof to main range with Welsh slates to angle with wing; pantiles to wing and outshuts. L-shaped on plan: main 3-room range with 3 main bays of timber frame (probably with intermediate wall-posts), stairs beside stack to left; 2-room wing to front left; rear outshuts to main range and wing. Main range: single storey with attic, 3 windows. C20 door to right of centre beneath projecting porch with hipped thatched roof supported on pair of timber posts. 3-light sliding sashes with glazing bars to either side, 12-pane sliding sash to left. Central dormer with weatherboarded gable over 3-light sliding sash. Half-hipped roof with ornate ridge capping. Axial stack. Attic 3-light sliding sashes to left and right returns. Padstones visible to rear right angle. Low 2-storey wing to left: recessed panelled door and three 12-pane sliding sashes, all except one under segmental arches. Central first floor ventilation hatch. Stepped and dentilled brick eaves cornice. Brick coped and tumbled gables. End stack to right. Left gable end has C19-C20 brick steps to original first floor board door. Interior. Wall plates, tie-beams and some repaired wall posts visible. First floor supported on chamfered spine beams and side-rails carried on brackets nailed to wall posts.

Listing NGR: TA3089604485

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
164398
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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