May Tree House With Adjoining Steps And Boundary Wall

HARLAXTON SK8832 CHURCH STREET 1315-0/14/140 (North West side) 24/09/79 No.8 May Tree House, with adjoining steps and boundary wall GV II

Estate cottage, now a house, and adjoining steps and boundary wall. c1800, remodelled c1820-1840, with mid C20 additions and alterations. Brick with ashlar dressings and hipped slate roofs. Square, coped brick ridge stack with ashlar pilasters. First floor band, and strapwork pilasters to right of first floor. 2 storeys; 2 window range. Windows have stone surrounds and mullions, and leaded glazing. To right, a 3-light window. To left, a projecting C20 first floor addition with a 5-light window. Below, to left, an ashlar porch with square piers and 3 Tudor arched openings, with a balustrade to the right bay. The openings have a Tudor style turned wooden balustrade. Under the porch, a 5-light window with drop-down shutters, and to its right, a plank door with ornamental hinges, and square ashlar steps. To right, a 3-light window with Ipswich glazing bars, then a 2-light cross casement corner window. Outside, to left, a coursed rubble boundary wall with rubble coping, approx 10m long. This building is probably one of those built or altered c1790-1820 by George de Ligne Gregory and remodelled in a picturesque style by Gregory Gregory, successive Lords of the Manor of Harlaxton. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J & Antram N: Lincolnshire: London: 1964-1989: 361-362; Rowlands G: Harlaxton Manor: Harlaxton: 1984-: 20-29).

Listing NGR: SK8837532615