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TF 01 67 BRANSTON & MERE LINCOLN ROAD 7/13 (south side) Branston Hall and 23/10/1981 Outbuildings II Country House. 1885 designed by J McVicar for Lord Vere Bertie, in Elizabethan Revival style. Rock faced stone with ashlar dressings. Green slate ridge roofs, with tall octagonal stacks in various groups. Ashlar plinth, first floor band topped with cornice and coped parapet and Dutch coped gables with finials. Two-and-half-storey. Garden front has central 3-light cross windows, with 2 single light windows eitherside, flanked by square bay windows each 5-light cross casements. Above 5-light central oriel, flanked by 2 single light windows and again flanked with square bays. Above 3, 3-light windows in gables, the central gable has plaque inscribed "1885". East front obscured by C20 additions. Entrance front has grand porte corchere of 4 columns, 4 square columns and 4 pilasters all Tuscan Doric with strapwork decoration, topped with ornate entablature and pierced balustrade. Plus 3-storey stair turret rising from square to octagonal and topped by octagonal leaded cap. Two-storey service wing to east, with single storey outbuildings around a courtyard beyond. Various single storey C20 additions to east and south-west. Interiors have contemporary staircase and fireplaces with some panelled rooms. Listing NGR: TF0147967413

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