May Tree House With Adjoining Steps and Boundary Wall
MAY TREE HOUSE WITH ADJOINING STEPS AND BOUNDARY WALL, 8, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187958
- Date first listed:
- 24-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- May Tree House With Adjoining Steps and Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address:
- MAY TREE HOUSE WITH ADJOINING STEPS AND BOUNDARY WALL, 8, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187958
- Date first listed:
- 24-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- May Tree House With Adjoining Steps and Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAY TREE HOUSE WITH ADJOINING STEPS AND BOUNDARY WALL, 8, CHURCH STREET
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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:
- MAY TREE HOUSE WITH ADJOINING STEPS AND BOUNDARY WALL, 8, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- South Kesteven (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Harlaxton
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 88375 32615
Details
HARLAXTON SK8832 CHURCH STREET 1315-0/14/140 (North West side) 24/09/79 No.8 May Tree House, with adjoining steps and boundary wall GV II
Estate cottage, now a house, and adjoining steps and boundary wall. c1800, remodelled c1820-1840, with mid C20 additions and alterations. Brick with ashlar dressings and hipped slate roofs. Square, coped brick ridge stack with ashlar pilasters. First floor band, and strapwork pilasters to right of first floor. 2 storeys; 2 window range. Windows have stone surrounds and mullions, and leaded glazing. To right, a 3-light window. To left, a projecting C20 first floor addition with a 5-light window. Below, to left, an ashlar porch with square piers and 3 Tudor arched openings, with a balustrade to the right bay. The openings have a Tudor style turned wooden balustrade. Under the porch, a 5-light window with drop-down shutters, and to its right, a plank door with ornamental hinges, and square ashlar steps. To right, a 3-light window with Ipswich glazing bars, then a 2-light cross casement corner window. Outside, to left, a coursed rubble boundary wall with rubble coping, approx 10m long. This building is probably one of those built or altered c1790-1820 by George de Ligne Gregory and remodelled in a picturesque style by Gregory Gregory, successive Lords of the Manor of Harlaxton. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J & Antram N: Lincolnshire: London: 1964-1989: 361-362; Rowlands G: Harlaxton Manor: Harlaxton: 1984-: 20-29).
Listing NGR: SK8837532615
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382946
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 361-362
Rowlands, G, Harlaxton Manor, (1984), 20-29
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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