Estate Office With Attached Walls And Buildings

TF 03 NE ASWARBY AND SWARBY MAIN STREET (south side),

7/12 Estate Office with attached walls and buildings.

G.V. II

House, 1852, some C20 alterations. Probably by H.E. Kendall, for the Whichcote family of Aswarby Park. Coursed and random limestone rubble, ashlar quoins and dressings, Collyweston slate roofs having raised stone coped gables, hollow chamfered kneelers and 3 pairs and a bank of 5 square wall stacks with moulded cornices. 2 storey irregular 4 bay garden front with plinth and lion mask cast iron gutter the right hand 2 bays are gabled. Central half glazed door in chamfered 4 centred arched surround with recessed head having 2 chamfered orders supported on moulded corbels. Immediately to right is a small fixed vertical light. Beyond to the right are 2 two light cavetto moulded cross mullioned windows. To left is a single matching 3 light window. To first floor a central single top hung sash window with to the right a 3 light mullioned window. All windows have hollow chamfered stepped surrounds and casements. To left side is a single 3 light canted mullioned bay window with hipped ashlar roof. To right side a gabled and slightly advanced central bay contains a 4 light cavetto mullioned window to ground floor and a 3 light mullioned window to the first floor. Interior retains a dog leg staircase with moulded baulsters and a single plain slate fireplace surround with moulded corbels. To right rear is an ashlar coped wall containing a chamfered Tudor arched doorway and a chamfered segmental vehicle arch above which is a datestone of 1852 and the Whichcote cypher. Beyond is a 2 storey trap house having a plinth, single moulded ashlar wall stack, raised stone coped gables and Collyweston slate roof. To ground floor are a pair of planked doors beneath a timber lintel and to the first floor a single 2 light mullioned window. To right is a single storey stable range containing a chamfered segmental archway with planked double doors and a Tudor arched doorway. To rear (street) front are a low 3 light mullioned window and a further 2 light window. To right is a low limestone rubble wall containing a gateway with square ashlar piers having stepped pyramidal copings. To left of trap house a tall brick wall in English garden wall bond of 3 with round brick copings terminates in a square brick pier with pyramidal copings.

Listing NGR: TF0694439967