63636 Heckington Manor, located east-south-east of the church, was a conventional type of building of about 1700, constructed on an H-plan with a hipped roof. It was rebuilt in 1909 in new brick with stone window surrounds. The centre wall of the east front looks about 1700, as does the open-string stair round a square wall. {1} There was a house of some size on the site prior to the construction of the present house. In 1578 the Mansion House, also known as Boston Garth, was leased to William Taylor. By 1665 Robert Taylor was living in a large house in Heckington, presumably on this site. In 1769 Richard Godson married Mary Taylor, the heiress of the Taylor estate, and this family lived at Heckington Manor until the 1950s. It was Earnest H. Godson, a Sleaford solicitor, who enlarged and altered the house in 1905. After the 1950s the house was purchased by the County Council and became a children's home, then a residential home for the elderly befor being sold to become the Ferdowse Clinic. It is currently unoccupied (2013). {2}