ST VINCENT'S HOUSE

ST VINCENT'S HOUSE, ST VINCENT'S ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1261503
Date first listed:: 27-May-1986
List Entry Name:: ST VINCENT'S HOUSE
Statutory Address:: ST VINCENT'S HOUSE, ST VINCENT'S ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1261503
Date first listed:: 27-May-1986
List Entry Name:: ST VINCENT'S HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: ST VINCENT'S HOUSE, ST VINCENT'S 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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Location

Statutory Address:: ST VINCENT'S HOUSE, ST VINCENT'S ROAD

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

County:: Lincolnshire
District:: South Kesteven (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 92477 35066

Details

5314 SK 93 NW 2/200A

ST VINCENT'S ROAD, St Vincent's House

II

Small country house. Built c.1868 for Richard Hornsby, industrialist, who owned the local iron works, and agricultural engine works. Gothic Revival style. Rock-faced limestone, with ashlar dressings and steeply pitched Welsh slate roofs, with decorative ridge tiles. Ashlar coped gables with moulded kneelers and finials. Two external, rear wall chimneys, with tall, double columnar ashlar stacks, the remaining stacks have been capped. Moulded ashlar plinth, and flush quoins. 2 storeys plus attics. Irregular plan. North entrance front, has central projecting gabled wing, with single storey, lean to, porch to the left. The doorway has a pointed arched moulded ashlar surround, with marble shafts, and hood mould. Above is a moulded ashlar parapet pierced with quatrofoils. To the right a 2-light, chamfered window, with tracery, above a single plain sash, in a flat headed chamfered surround, with a pointed inner arch. Above again a 3-light, chamfered mullion window, with a taller central light with cusped heads. At the north-west corner a circular tower, of 3 storeys, the lower 2 storeys have 3 single light chamfered lancets, with quatrofoil tracery. The third floor has an 8-light glazed arcade, with marble shafted columns and cusped tops. Below is a moulded band decorated with quatrofoils. Above a conical slate roof. Similar west and south front. Interior: entrance hall, has encased marble pillars, and a carved stone staircase. From 1922-77 this house was the property of the Air Ministry, and from 1937 to 1943 the Headquarters of No. 5 Group, Bomber Command. The famous "Dambusters" Air Raid on the Ruhr Dams, by 617 Squadron, was controlled from here. Various extensions and additions were added by the Air Ministry, most of these were removed, and the house restored after the property became the District Council Headquarters in 1977. None of the buildings in the grounds is of special interest.

Listing NGR: SK9247735066

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

Legacy System number:: 437292
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.