Coach House, Gin House, Granary, Gate Piers, Gate And Screen At Casterton Farm

TF 23 NE 8/92

WIGTOFT CLOVER LANE (east side) Coach house, gin house, granary, gate piers, gate and screen at Casterton Farm

G.V. II

Coach house, gin house, granary, gate piers, gate and screen. Early C19, late C19, altered C20. Red brick in Flemish bond, hipped asbestos roofs. Cast iron. Rectangular coach house block with 2 projecting gabled single storeyed wings with beyond a gin house linked to large granary. 3 storey, 4 bay coach house with off-centre double planked door beneath elliptical rubbed brick arch with Gothick fanlight, to left a 2 light window with Gothick tracery. Beyond to either side are single storeyed gabled coach houses, each with double plank doors and brick coped gables. To first floor are 4 windows matching that beneath and to second floor are 4 further similar windows all with Gothick tracery and semi-circular brick heads. In the middle of the second floor a brass fire insurance plaque of the Britannia Co. To left a single storey 2 bay gin house, originally open sided with brick piers, supporting steeply hipped roof. Inside a cross beam supports struts to the roof and a fixing for a horse gin is visible on the underside. In front are 2 late C19 gate piers of stuccoed brick with industrial brick pyramidal copings. The gates and side screens incorporate ironwork of c.1830 with spearhead terminals and ramped side rails. To the right only a pedestrian gate in the rustic taste has a barred rail, leafy verticals and bulbous terminals. Beyond again a 3 storey granary of 7 bays with hipped asbestos roof. Details of the lower part are obscured by added single storey late C19 buildings. To first floor are 4 windows and 3 blocked openings. To second floor are 7 smaller 2 light windows. All openings have segmental brick heads. To left side are planked double doors to ground floor and a single planked door to first floor, above which is a cast iron pulley arm with pierced circular decoration, flanked by single 2 light windows.

Listing NGR: TF2573136680