Building record MLI87914 - Heckington Manor

Summary

Heckington Manor was originally a seventeenth century building which was rebuilt in 1909.

Type and Period (1)

  • (Post Medieval to Modern - 1700 AD to 2050 AD)

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Full Description

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}

Sources/Archives (2)

  •  Bibliographic Reference: Nikolaus Pevsner and John Harris, with Nicholas Antram. 1989. Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (Second Edition). page 378.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Heckington Village Trust. 2001. Heckington A Journey through Time. pp.35 and 109.

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Location

Grid reference Centred TF 14270 44281 (23m by 25m)
Civil Parish HECKINGTON, NORTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Record last edited

Aug 19 2021 11:14AM

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