Horkstow Hall

Details

SE 91 NE HORKSTOW MAIN STREET (west side)

7/48 Horkstow Hall

6.11.67

GV II *

Small country house. 1776, probably for Rear Admiral Thomas Shirley. Left wing raised to two storeys and extended in C19. C20 alterations. Stuccoed brick with ashlar details. Slate roofs. Classical style; C19 additions in similar style. Plan: double depth main section with 2-room central entrance hall front, screen walls and later turret extension to right, double-depth wing to left with forward projecting pavilion section and later extensions to rear and left. Entrance front, facing road. Main section: 2 storeys with attic, 1:3:1 bays with central pedimented section breaking forward; single-storey single-bay screen wall set back to right; 2 low storey single- bay wing set back to left, 2 low storey 3-bay forward projecting section with single-bay gable-end to road and front garden wall (q.v.) adjoining. Quoins to main section and pedimented bays. Entrance has rusticated surround with flat arch and carved mask keystone flanked by half-columns with square vermiculated bands, full Doric entablature with carved paterae and triglyphs alternating in the frieze, moulded cornice and pediment. Large 6-fielded-panel door (boarded-up at the time of resurvey). Two 12- pane sashes in reveals to either side with bracketed cills and keyed and channelled flat arches. Similar windows to first floor. Moulded ashlar cornice, stone-coped parapet and pediment with lunette in tympanum with bracketed cill and keyed surround. Double-span roof with stone-coped gables and end stacks. Coped screen wall to right has blind Venetian window with bracketed cill, raised pilasters, moulded ashlar cornice and keyed archivolt. Wing to left has similar ground floor Venetian window with central sash and blind side panels, inserted entrance to right, moulded ashlar first floor band, 12-pane first floor sash and C20 window to right, coped parapet and double-span roof with coped gables. Projecting section has similar Venetian window to front with blind side panels, moulded first floor band, and coped gable; line of original single-storey gable visible in stucco. Right return of projecting wing, facing front garden, has two 12- pane sashes, inserted door and window to ground floor, and moulded band cut by 3 first floor sashes. Garden Front similar to Entrance Front but without projecting central section and quoins, and with full-height canted bay window. Partly-blocked central entrance has moulded stone step to Gibbs surround with vermiculated rustication, pulvinated frieze, modillioned cornice and pediment. Original canted bay window to right has three 12-pane sashes to each floor and moulded ashlar cornice. Two 12-pane sashes to each floor to left, replacing former canted bay (scars of which are visible in stucco). First floor Venetian window above entrance with blind side panels. Screen wall to left has blind Venetian window with moulded capitals and raised keystones, moulded ashlar cornice at first floor level and coped parapet. Wing to right has similar details to ground floor (but with enlarged sidelight to Venetian window), and smaller Venetian window to C19 first floor. All openings boarded-up at time of resurvey. Interior. Plasterwork includes very fine Rococo stairhall ceiling wih ornate modillioned cornice and delicately moulded panels, elaborate cornices to entrance hall and main rooms, with moulded ceiling roses and garlands to ground floor rear right and rear left. Good original carved and moulded chimneypieces to main rooms with Classical, Gothick and Rococo ornament. Open-well staircase with ramped handrail and column-on-vase balusters with square knops, damaged at time of resurvey. Pilastered openings to entrance hall and bay windows, moulded dado rails and skirting, fielded-panel doors and window shutters in ovolo architraves. Dated rainwater head now lost. A good mid-Georgian house, empty and in decay at time of resurvey. N Pevsner and J Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1978, 276; NMR.

Listing NGR: SE9856019076

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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 276

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