Beckingham House

SK 9298-9398 KIRTON IN LINDSEY GROVE STREET (north side)

8/11 Beckingham House - (Previously listed in 6.11.67 Ings Road - II

House. Mid C19 or earlier, with late C19 front and C20 alterations. Red brick with some sandstone ashlar dressings to rear; stucco front. Pantile roof. 2 storeys, 4 bays: 3-bay symmetrical section on right, with single bay wing to left. Plinth. Pilasters at angles and between bays 1 and 2. Rusticated ground floor. Entrance in third bay: flat-roofed porch with plain entablature and cornice carried on Tuscan columns has stone steps to recessed part-glazed door beneath blocked overlight flanked by pilasters. Full-height canted bay windows to either side with sashes, moulded cornices and recessed panels between floors. 12-pane sash to left wing in architrave with bracketed cill and plain shouldered and eared surround with raised roundels. First floor band. Similar first floor window above, and sash above entrance in raised surround with moulded cornice and hood on consoles. Modillioned entablature, frieze with circular floral ornament and moulded cornice. Parapet between coped pillar extensions of pilasters with segmental-arched and stepped section over 3 bays to right bearing wreath ornament. Rear, facing street, has bays defined by pilasters with moulded stone capitals. Part-glazed door on right with plain overlight in panelled reveal with beaded surround and hood. Part-glazes door in second bay beneath porch in adjoining outhouse range with colpured glass casement to right and 12-pane sash in flush wooden architrave in third bay. First floor band. 4 similar sashes above. Projecting parapet, with low triangular concrete slab-coped sections between stone-coped pillar extensions of pilaster. Interior of no special interest.

Listing NGR: SK9323998888