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TA 1001-1101 CAISTOR SOUTH STREET (east side) 9/91 No 22 G.V. II WRVS Headquarters, probably originally the Sessions House built in 1662 and mentioned in the Churchwardens' Accounts. C17 with C19 alterations, painted brick with pantiled roof with stone coped gables and brick kneelers, 2 brick wall stacks. Gable on to street is 2 storeys with garrets; gables rebuilt in C19; 2 bay front Plough Hill with central stepped and batteredbrick buttresses with clasping angle pilasters with plinths and sloping coped tops. Plinth also runs across front and is stepped up the sides of the building to allow for the sloping site. Off centre C19 6 panelled door with overlight and segmental head, to right a broad brick arched opening blocked in the C19 when a tripartite window was inserted. On the first floor are 2 C19 bordered sashes. In the garret 2 further similar windows with segmental heads. The long side elevations are divided into 2 bays by central pilaster buttresses, in the lower parts are an arch and a rectangular light to an undercroft. On the first floor are 3 C19 sashes with segmental heads. South Street facade is renderedand of 2 storeys with a mid C19 shop front having a ½ glazed panelled door and plain overlight with 3 pane shop window divided by 4 pilasters, a fascia, cornice and on the first floor a bordered sash with a segmental head. Includes No 22 Butter Market. Listing NGR: TA1185401299

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