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TA 1001-1101 CAISTOR CHURCH STREET (North Side) 9/50 Caistor Grammar 1-11-66 School Old Building G.V. II School hall. 1631 with alterations of C19 heavily restored in 1930. Squared coursed ironstone rubble with sandstone and limestone dressings, rudimentary quoins, pantiled roof with raised stone roll moulded coped gables; one wall stack. Rectangular plan with C19 extension to right. Single storey 3 bay south front surmounted by a hollow moulded string course with roll crested battlements above. Off centre planked 1930 door has a plain rounded arched head, originally with chamfered arrises. Above the door is an inscribed rectangular panel, 1930, set in a hollow moulded sandstone head with a Latin inscription recording the foundation of the school by Francis Rawlinson, Rector of the Church of St. Nicholas at South Kelsey in 1631. To either side of the door are single slightly projecting rectangular bays, each containing a 3 light window beneath hollow moulded depressed 4 centred hood moulds with simple horizontal stops. The leaded lights have iron transomes and each has a single horizonatally hinged light at the base. The mullions are chamfered, the hoods 4 centred, the spandrels are sunken wedges. Inside, the panelling and other fittings date from the 1930 restoration. The fireplace consists of a moulded 4 centred arch stopping in stop chamfers, in the spandrels are sunk stepped panels. In the north (rear) wall of the building, 2 original large blocked windows can be seen to either side of the projecting brick stack; there was a further window, now blocked, high up in the west wall. Listing NGR: TA1152701298

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