Palace Farmhouse
PALACE FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261198
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Palace Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- PALACE FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03511/23
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261198
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Palace Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- PALACE FARMHOUSE, MAIN 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:
- PALACE FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- South Kesteven (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Witham on the Hill
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 05400 16543
Details
TF O1 NE WITHAM ON THE HILL MAIN STREET (north side)
2/288 Palace Farmhouse
II
House. C16, Cl7, restored and altered C19, C20. Squared limestone rubble, ashlar quoins and dressings. Collyweston slate roof having raised stone coped gables with kneelers, single gable and ridge ashlar stacks with moulded cornices. Cross plan. The central cross wing being the early core. 2 storey with attics, irregular 4 bay front, with plinth. Third bay from left is advanced and separately gabled. Off-centre 4 centred arched door with sunk spandrels and moulded hood. To left single, to right 2, three light windows. to first floor are 3 similar windows, one of 4 lights. To the second floor a further 3 light window with gable. All windows have chamfered cavetto mullions, moulded stone surrounds and hoods, with lattice casements. The interior of the house has been substantially altered, but the cross wing retains its good quality oak roof with queenposts, braced by ties, with chamfered rafters and heavy ridge beam, and in the hall is a moulded 4 centred arched fireplace. The house may incorporate an earlier building of the Bishops of Lincoln, and was twice partially destroyed by fire and remodelled. Source: D. L. Roberts.
Listing NGR: TF0540016543
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438172
- 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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