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TF O1 NE WITHAM ON THE HILL MAIN STREET (north side) 2/288 Palace Farmhouse II House. C16, Cl7, restored and altered C19, C20. Squared limestone rubble, ashlar quoins and dressings. Collyweston slate roof having raised stone coped gables with kneelers, single gable and ridge ashlar stacks with moulded cornices. Cross plan. The central cross wing being the early core. 2 storey with attics, irregular 4 bay front, with plinth. Third bay from left is advanced and separately gabled. Off-centre 4 centred arched door with sunk spandrels and moulded hood. To left single, to right 2, three light windows. to first floor are 3 similar windows, one of 4 lights. To the second floor a further 3 light window with gable. All windows have chamfered cavetto mullions, moulded stone surrounds and hoods, with lattice casements. The interior of the house has been substantially altered, but the cross wing retains its good quality oak roof with queenposts, braced by ties, with chamfered rafters and heavy ridge beam, and in the hall is a moulded 4 centred arched fireplace. The house may incorporate an earlier building of the Bishops of Lincoln, and was twice partially destroyed by fire and remodelled. Source: D. L. Roberts. Listing NGR: TF0540016543

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