Lockner Holt

TQ 04 NW ST MARTHA CP LOCKNER HOLT

4/93 Lockner Holt

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House, now divided. 1860 by Henry Woodyer for the Duke of Northumberland in castellated style, extended to left and rear in 1890. Coursed Bargate stone with sandstone and brick dressings, plain tiled roofs. L-shaped plan with projecting wing to left and courtyard in re-entrant angle. Two storeys with attics in stepped gables on left hand wing. Plinth, string course to base of battlemented parapets and over ground floor. Ridge stack to centre, front stack to left of centre, ridge stacks on left hand wing and front end stack to stepped gable to right. Stone dressed, trefoil-head arched fenestration - mainly three light with two windows on each floor to right of centre. First floor window over entrance in angled bay placed diagonally across re-entrant angle. Five light window to right of door. Circular tower to left of entrance under conical roof with corbelled eaves. Lancet windows below. Further stone dressed windows to left on projecting wing. Stone frontispiece to angle bay across re-entrant angle under string course with crests either side of pointed arched door under flat hoodmould.

Interior: Plaster ceilings, panelled with foliage decoration in drawing room. Wooden Gothic style panelling, cusped and panelled ceiling in billiard room. Siennese marble fireplace in former library with arcaded panelling. Main stairway with carved newel posts in Gothic style.

Entrance hall: Panelled and containing massive marble fireplace under complex crocketed and finialled Gothic overmantle. Original door lock and mechanism survive on main door.

Listing NGR: TQ0392747072