A And J Sargent House Furnishers And Attached Rear Wing

SK 9298-9398 KIRTON IN LINDSEY HIGH STREET (south side)

8/16 No 28. Summers Grocers, - house and Stables to rear

GV II

House, now shop, with adjoining range to rear. Shop: mid C19 with earlier origins, late C18-early C19 wing and later C19 stair turret to rear. C18 house and stables along yard to rear. Shop: coursed limestone rubble with brick dressings, stuccoed to front. Pantile roof, brick stacks. 2 storeys, 3 first floor windows. Plinth, quoins. Shop front to left, with 3 engaged tapered columns flanking part-glazed door with plain overlight to right, and plain shop window to left. Fascia, cornice and hood. Plain glazed window to right. First floor band, 12-pane sashes. All windows have channelled and keyed stucco lintels and cills. Brick coped and tumbled gables, end stacks. Interior: moulded plaster cornices to front rooms and stairhall; panelled doors and window shutters in beaded architraves with moulded cornices to first floor front room, and wide open-well staircase with plain balusters and wreathed handrail. Adjoining house to rear: front of red and blue brick in contrasting Flemish bond, sides and rear of coursed rubble. Pantile roof, brick stack. 2 storeys, 3 first floor windows. Part-glazed panelled door on left in plain surround with hood, has bow-window to right with glazing bars and bead-moulded cill. Plank door to right with 3-light sliding sash with glazing bars to right. Plank door at right end with casement with glazing bars to right. All 3 sets of door and windows under flattened segmental arches. 2-course first floor band. C20 casements in original first floor openings with flattened segmental arches; blocked opening to left. Cogged brick eaves cornice. Central stack. Brick coped and tumbled gable to right. Interior contains beamed ceilings and pegged butt-purlin roof; fine late C18 cast-iron 'duck's nest' grate in later first floor fireplace. Adjoining stable set back to right: coursed rubble ground floor with brick dressings and brick first floor. 2-cell plan. 2 storeys. Round-arched central entrance with part-glazed and boarded opening to right and door to right end with small adjoining casement, both under segmental brick arches. Rounded ground floor angles stepped-out to projecting brick first floor corners. First floor has sliding sash with vertical glazing bars above entrance and pair of plank doors to right. Interior contains stables with store-room above. All except shop empty and disused at time of survey.

Listing NGR: SK9374698638