Building record MLI126961 - Outbuildings at Hardwick Grange, Swinestead
Summary
Former agricultural outbuildings at Hardwick Grange off Boston Road, Swinestead.
Type and Period (4)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Full Description
Former agricultural outbuildings. Two single storey buildings at right angles to each other around an open courtyard to the southeast. The larger of the two buildings is northwest-southeast aligned, built in English Garden Wall Bond, under a pitched gabled pantile roof. It has two central stables, with mangers and evidence of former hayracks in one wall. Both open to the southwest, into the courtyard. To the northwest of the stables is a tack room, with an infilled opening to the southwest and a modern opening to the northeast. Southeast of the stables is an open cartshed, which also once opened onto the courtyard but now opens to the northeast. The roof above both the cart shed and tack room has collapsed, and the building is generally in a state of ruin. The smaller building to the south of the first is aligned northeast-southwest and is also built in English Garden Wall Bond, under a pitched gabled roof of corrugated asbestos. It formerly had a doorway in the southeast elevation, opening into the courtyard, but as with the other building this has been infilled. Another opening in the northwest elevation appears original, but the door is a modern metal replacement. Adapted in modern times as a store and rest room, this building's original use is uncertain, though four evenly spaced recesses above the sink in the southwest wall hint towards the existence of a hay rack or harness pegs. {1}{2}
Sources/Archives (2)
- <1> SLI17777 Report: Witham Archaeology. 2022. Outbuildings at Hardwick Grange, Swinestead. Witham Archaeology Site Code: SWHG22.
- <2> SLI17778 Archive: Witham Archaeology. 2022. Outbuildings at Hardwick Grange, Swinestead. LCNCC: 2022.165.
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred TF 25478 42044 (19m by 15m) (2 map features) |
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| Civil Parish | SWINSTEAD, SOUTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE |
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Record last edited
Dec 11 2023 3:56PM
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