TOWER AT SOUTH KELSEY HALL

TOWER AT SOUTH KELSEY HALL, THORNTON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1166176
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: TOWER AT SOUTH KELSEY HALL
Statutory Address:: TOWER AT SOUTH KELSEY HALL, THORNTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1166176
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: TOWER AT SOUTH KELSEY HALL
Statutory Address 1:: TOWER AT SOUTH KELSEY HALL, THORNTON ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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

Location

Statutory Address:: TOWER AT SOUTH KELSEY HALL, THORNTON ROAD

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

County:: Lincolnshire
District:: West Lindsey (District Authority)
Parish:: South Kelsey
National Grid Reference:: TF 04498 97652

Details

TF 09 NW SOUTH KELSEY THORNTON ROAD

4/55 Tower at South 1-11-66 Kelsey Hall G.V. II

Remains of angle tower of large Tudor House, later converted to a dovecote; mid C16, with C19 alterations; brick with ashlar dressings, slate roof with lead dressings. Octagonal plan. The corners are in ashlar quoins and a repair to the rear wall is also in ashlar. The top brick courses were added C19 and have a dentillated and corbelled out eaves course. There is one cusped light at mid level on the south side, otherwise openings are C19 insertions. The original hall was a courtyard flanked by octagonal towers with leaded domed roofs and a drawing survives in the Gough collection at the Bodleian Library. The hall was the seat of the Hansard family and came into the possession of Sir Francis Ayscough in the 16th century whose sister Anne Askew was martyred at Smithfield in 1546. Earthworks of the original moat still survive.

Listing NGR: TF0449897652

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 196535
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.