Estate Office with Attached Walls and Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the North Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1990. House, office.

Estate Office with Attached Walls and Buildings

WRENN ID
heavy-pilaster-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Kesteven
Constituency
Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 January 1990
Type
House, office
OS grid reference
TF 069 399
Coordinates
52.94646, -0.40985
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The estate office, built in 1852 and with some 20th-century alterations, was likely designed by H.E. Kendall for the Whichcote family of Aswarby Park. It is constructed of coursed and random limestone rubble, with ashlar quoins and dressings, and has Collyweston slate roofs with raised stone coped gables, hollow chamfered kneelers, and four wall stacks with moulded cornices.

The garden front is an irregular four-bay design with a plinth and cast iron lion mask guttering. The central entrance has a half-glazed door within a chamfered four-centred arched surround, recessed orders, moulded corbels, and a small vertical light to the right. Two two-light cross-mullioned windows are to the right, with a single matching three-light window to the left. Upstairs, a single top-hung sash window sits centrally, alongside a three-light mullioned window to the right. All windows have hollow chamfered stepped surrounds and casements. A canted mullioned bay window with a hipped ashlar roof extends to the left side, and a gabled bay to the right contains a four-light window on the ground floor and a three-light window above.

Inside, the estate office retains a dog-leg staircase with moulded balusters and a plain slate fireplace surround with moulded corbels. A rear ashlar coped wall features a chamfered Tudor arched doorway and a segmental vehicle arch above, displaying a datestone of 1852 and the Whichcote cypher.

Adjacent to the office is a two-storey trap house with a plinth, moulded ashlar stack, raised stone coped gables, and Collyweston slate roof. It contains planked doors and a two-light mullioned window. A single-storey stable range to the right has a chamfered segmental archway with planked doors and a Tudor arched doorway. The rear (street) front has a low three-light mullioned window, a two-light window, and a low limestone rubble wall with a gateway featuring square ashlar piers with stepped pyramidal copings. A tall brick wall in English garden bond, with round brick copings, terminates in a square brick pier with pyramidal copings to the left of the trap house.

Local climate

Estate Office with Attached Walls and Buildings sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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