Honington House And Boundary Walls Adjoining To North And East

TL 97 SW HONINGTON IXWORTH ROAD (WEST SIDE)

3/74 Honington House and - boundary walls adjoining to North and East.

GV II

Former Rectory. C18. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered. Black glazed pantiled roofs, fully hipped, with wide eaves overhang and mutule cornice. Internal chimney-stack with plain red brick shaft. Centre front has a 2-storey rounded bay. Range of sash windows in flush frames, all but one with the glazing-bars removed. At the north-east corner, behind the front range, is a 2-storey block with fully hipped roof: apparently a separate building linked with the main house. This has small-paned sash windows in flush frames. Coved plaster ceilings to upper rooms. Stair wing at rear, containing an early C19 geometrical stair. One octagonal ground-floor room with coved ceiling. Adjoining the north-east corner of the house is a long stretch of high rubble flint wall, with rounded copings and red brick piers, at its western end forming one side of a range of single-storey outbuildings, with clay pantiled roofs, extending from the rear of the house At the north-east end, a doorway in Gothic style, with pointed head and red brick jambs. The return wall along the east side which forms the boundary between the garden and the school yard has a similar blocked doorway.

Listing NGR: TL9119974593