Little Ponton Hall And Service Range With Yard

LITTLE PONTON AND off CHURCH LANE SK 93 SW STROXTON (east side) 4/108 Little Ponton Hall and Service Range with yard G.V. II Small country house and service range with yard. Early C18, late C18, early C19 alterations and additions. 1864 alterations. Squared limestone rubble with ashlar quoins, ashlar, slate roofs with stone coped gables, moulded ashlar gable and ridge stacks. 2 storey plus attics, 8 bay south front arranged 3:3:2, the central 3 bays project slightly with first floor band. The right hand 5 bays are what remains of the original early C18 7 bay front. The left hand bays were cut down and then replaced late C18 by 3 slightly higher bays. Central half glazed door with plain overlight set in panelled reveals under added Doric portico with plain cornice. To left a glazing bar sash, and a rectangular mid C19 bay window with hipped slate roof and 3 tall glazing bar sashes with dividing pilasters. To right 3 glazing bar sashes. To first floor 8 glazing bar sashes. The windows in the central 3 bays have ashlar surrounds with keystones. To the roof are 4 glazing bar casement dormers with curved lead roofs and cheeks. The left hand side front is of 3 bays in ashlar with hipped slate roof and central 2 storey late C18 bow window containing 3 glazing bar sashes, flanked by single similar windows. The plain parapet is ramped up to the slightly advanced central bay. To the rear is an early C18 eared door surround with scrolled brackets and pediment. To the right of the house is a late C18 service block, altered 1864, U-plan. The 2 storey, 6 bay front has 3 blocked openings to ground floor, and 2 glazing bar sashes, with above 2 smaller blocked openings and 3 similar windows. In the yard area are 5 early C18 pedimented doorcases as the rear, and a datestone of 1864 with the Turnor initials. Interior has late C18 circular top lit stair hall with cantilevered staircase, 2 slender moulded balusters per tread, wreathed handrail and niches with semi-circular heads to the upper floor. History. The house has probably built for William Thorold, d.l725, or for Lord Widrington, was altered late C18 for the Pennyman family and in C19 by Christopher Turnor of Stoke Rochford Hall. It seems most likely that the matching early C18 doorcases came from one of the demolished Stoke Rochford Halls.

Listing NGR: SK9268432194