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SOMERSBY CHURCH LANE TF 37 SW (south side) 2/71 Somersby House (formerly 25.10.51 listed as Somersby Rectory) G.V. II * Rectory, now house. Mid C18 with later C18 and C19 additions, c.1975 alterations. Colourwashed red brick. Pantile roof. 2 red brick gable stacks. Brick coped gables. First floor band. Double ridge roof. 2 storeys plus cellar, 5 bays. Single segmental arched cellar opening to the left. Doorway with 6 fielded panel door and traceried fanlight flanked by single slender Doric pilasters with entablature and open pediment. C19 gabled hood with orb finial. To the left are 4 cambered arched glazing bar sashes. To the right a single small gabled hood with bell under. Above are 3 similar sashes under flat heads, that on the right flanked by single small C20 sashes. Attached to the right is a similar C19 single storey plus attic, 2 bay wing, half hipped to the right. First floor band. 2 C20 casements. Attic has a single half dormer with hipped pantile roof and single tripartite casement. Attached to the left is a similar wing with single red brick ridge stack. 2 C20 tripartite casements with 2 similar half dormers above. Rear. The left single bay is single storey plus attic, the single bay to the right is late C18, of 2 storeys with coped gables, left gable stack and dentil eaves, further right are 2 mid C18 bays being lower 2 storeys, slightly set back with coped right gable with red brick stack, moulded eaves and first floor bands. On the far right are 3 C20 single storey plus attic bays replacing the demolished wing designed by George Tennyson. Having from left to right a single segmental arched glazing bar Yorkshire sash, a 2 storey canted bay being C20 to the ground floor and C19 to the first floor with 3 glazing bar sashes, 2 large segmental arched glazing bar sashes and in the C20 wing 2 giant order pointed arched panels which break the roof line and are gabled over having 3 glazing bar sashes with concrete lintels. Above in the attic is a single half dormer with 2 glazing bar sashes, to the right, in the canted bay, are 3 glazing bar sashes, further right are 2 glazing bar sashes with ornate wrought iron balcony to that on the right. In the C20 bays are 2 pointed arched glazing bar sashes with intersecting tracery. Interior. Re-set single flight staircase with turned balusters, tapering fluted newel and carved tread ends. Balusters also to landing. Listing NGR: TF3428672597

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