Listed Building: CASTERTON HOUSE, HA HA WALL, GATES AND RAILINGS (1232910)

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Grade II
Authority Department of the Environment
Date assigned 05 April 1988
Date last amended

Description

TF 23 NE WIGTOFT CLOVER LANE (east side) 8/91 Casterton House, ha-ha wall, gates and railings G.V. II House,ha-ha wall, gates and railings. Late C18, refronted and refitted c.1830. Ashlar faced. Red brick, slate roofs, behind parapet on the front. 2 stone gable stacks, the left hand one reduced, copper roofed verandah, cast iron railings and gates. 3 storey, 3 bay front with plinth, first floor band, parapet, centre bay slightly advanced, end pilasters. To ground floor a verandah on slender cast iron supports with segmental arches and decorative spandrels. Central half glazed and panelled door with fanlight in semi-circular moulded stone surround, flanked by single canted bay windows with plain pilasters to the angles. To first floor 3 plain sashes with moulded stone architraves and cornices. The second floor has 3 similar windows but without cornices. To the left a lower 2 storey single bay recessed wing containing a doorway with moulded stone architrave and narrow hood supported on scrolled brackets. Above a sash window with plain apron and moulded architrave. To the right a single storey service wing with stepped parapet. Interior retains a fluted stick baluster stair with wreathed handrail, carved open string, fluted newel. Contemporary joinery with fluted architraves, roundels in the angles, semi-circular hall arch and moulded plaster cornice. In the front of the house a semi-circular brick ha-ha wall with limestone copings, supports a cast iron fence with octagonal panels, anthemia and pierced square piers to side gates. Listing NGR: TF2575636671

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Grid reference TF 25756 36671 (point)
Map sheet TF23NE
Civil Parish WIGTOFT, BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Jul 13 2009 5:01PM

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