Casewick Hall

Casewick Hall is a country house now divided into three units, with an attached wall and gateway. Originally a medieval hall block, it was substantially remodelled in the early 17th century by the Trollope family, altered in the late 17th century, and refronted between 1786 and 1788 by William Legge of Stamford in Gothick style.

The building is constructed of coursed and ashlar banded limestone rubble, squared limestone rubble, ashlar, and ashlar quoins with stone dressings. The roofs are laid with Collyweston slate with lead dressings, some hipped and some with stone coped gables.

The garden front of 1785 by William Legge forms the principal elevation, built in ashlar with raised stepped coped gables and large ridge and valley finials at each end. There are two triple valley stacks, two double ridge stacks, and a single wall stack, all with moulded cornices. The front is two storeys plus attics, arranged in a fifteen-bay composition with bays grouped as 2:2:2:3:2:2:2. The central three bays are slightly advanced and gabled. A plain plinth runs across the base, with a moulded string course above. Over the centre seven bays is an embattled parapet with blank pointed niches to the merlons and lozenges to the embrasures.

The central entrance comprises half-glazed double doors with a pointed Gothick overlight, flanked by single pointed Gothick sashes. These openings have moulded hoods supported on ashlar triple shafts, with a plain frieze and cornice above. To either side are six windows. In the upper part of the centre bay are three further pointed sashes, with the taller central window having an ogee hood with crockets and pinnacles flanking the triple shafts. All windows throughout feature flush moulded ashlar surrounds with six-paned sashes, the upper three panes of which have delicate pointed lights. The paired end gables contain three three-light ovolo-moulded mullioned windows with Gothick lights and moulded hoods.

The south front on the right-hand side is early seventeenth-century work of four bays, with a chamfered plinth, two cyma-moulded string courses, and an embattled parapet. To the lower floors are four four-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed windows. In the roof are four gabled through-eaves dormers, each containing a three-light mullioned window with a continuous moulded hood. Beyond this is a single-storey three-bay addition of 1785, featuring a moulded cornice and embattled parapet with three tall pointed sashes set within reused moulded openings.

To the north side is a wall with plain copings. Set within it is a reset moulded seventeenth-century doorhead with a cornice above, surmounted by a pierced strapwork-shaped gablette with side scrolls and obelisks. An oval opening above this contains a cartouche bearing the initials "AK ER" and the date "AD 1651". The doorway contains an eighteenth-century wrought-iron gate with a scrolled oval centre panel and running scrolled rails.

The rear wing is constructed of banded and coursed limestone and contains two two-light seventeenth-century mullioned windows with cornices, and three late seventeenth-century wooden cross-mullioned leaded casements. This wing formerly housed the kitchen and brewhouse.

The interior of a room in the eastern half of the Jacobean range contains unusual seventeenth-century panelling of long boards divided by moulded stiles, apparently formerly located in the butler's bedroom. Late eighteenth-century features include a fine marble chimney piece in the dining room with neo-classical reliefs, and another in the drawing room with a frieze of female figures, possibly by Edward Bingham of Peterborough. Doors, doorcases, and friezes are executed in the Adam style. The library contains cases finished in grained wood with gilt ornaments.

The property was owned by Edward Heron in 1595 and sold to William Trollope in 1621. In the nineteenth century, the seventh Baronet was created Lord Kesteven. The house was sold and converted into three units in the 1980s.