88, High Street

SK 9704-9804 KETTON HIGH STREET 14/67 & 15/67 (north-west side)

No 88

II

House, early C18 origin, altered and extended C19. Of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings, Collyweston stone slate roof hipped to south, and ashlar ridge and end stacks. Two storeys and attics. Basically L-plan, with coped gable end to street on moulded kneelers. Two storey C19 canted bay window with sashes, and small attic window beneath timber lintel above. North flank has three 2-light casement dormers. Two storey later C19 addition to north. South flank, 2 windows wide, has 6/6 sashes with projecting keystones. A dormer above. Entrance in later C19 two-storey porch in angle. Door with rectangular fanlight with glazing bars. South end has 2-storey early C19 bow window. Garden front has.similar, projecting bow window extended at ground floor level in early C20, and 1st floor weatherboarded oriel. Interior has 2 late C19 fresco paintings (part of a larger composition) in ground floor front room, used as a chapel during period when house was St Mary's Diocesan Home, a penitentiary for reforming young women.

Listing NGR: SK9799904532