Conygree

HARLAXTON SK8832 HIGH STREET 1315-0/14/186 (West side) 24/09/79 No.26 Conygree GV II

Pair of estate cottages, now a house. Mid C18, remodelled 1796 and mid C19, altered late C20. Red brick with ashlar dressings and concrete pantile roof. Central ridge stack and 2 gable stacks, brick with stone coping and square raised bosses. Coped gables with kneelers and ball finials. 2 storeys; 4 window range. Windows mainly have stone mullions and brick flat arches. Front has eaves with stone modillions. Four 2-light windows, mainly reglazed, and above them, Renaissance Revival style blank dormers with volutes and ball finials. Each dormer has a blank raised panel. Below, 2 cross mullioned windows flanked to left by an ashlar doorcase with panelled pilasters and scroll brackets and a broken segmental pediment containing a ball finial on a bracket. To right, an ashlar doorcase with double keystone, partly blocked and altered to a window. Rear has dentillated brick eaves. Rear and returns have mid C20 fenestration. This building is the most elaborate of those built or altered c1790-1820 by George de Ligne Gregory, and altered c1820-1840 by Gregory Gregory, successive Lords of the Manor of Harlaxton. (Rowlands G: Harlaxton Manor: Harlaxton: 1984-: 20-29).

Listing NGR: SK8842132692