Description

TA 1001-1101 CAISTOR MARKET PLACE
(West Side)

9/70 Caistor House
No 19(formerly listed
1-11-66 as on Plough Hill)

G.V. II

Flats, formerly house, C17 with late C18 refronting. Stuccoed
brick with slate hipped roof and single central stack. 3 storey
5 bay front. Block stands on a platform with plinth and
dentillated cornice. Central entrance bay defined by full height
Ionic pilasters with pediment. 3 steps up to central 6 panelled
door in semi-circular headed opening with curvilinear traceried
fanlight and panelled reveals. Doorcase is crudely decorated
with a dowel imitation of reeding with dentillated frieze.
Above door is a plain panel bearing the date '1682', which cannot
be trusted. Doorway covered by an open porch supported by a pair
of round Ionic pillars with a pair of similar pillars in antis
flanking the door. Full entablature. Flanked by single glazing
bar sashes in painted plain stone surrounds with plain cornices
on dentils. Central semicircular headed first floor glazing bar
sash flanked by plain pilasters with moulded hood mould. Above
centre of window is a proud lozenge flanked by stone shields of
arms. Central window is flanked by pairs of glazing bar sashes
with painted stone surrounds and plain dentillated cornices with
beneath stucco anthemiae brackets. To second floor is a central
circular glazing bar fixed light with moulded stone surround.
Flanked by 2 smaller glazing bar sashes with painted stone
surrounds and anthemion brackets. In the pediment is a lion's
head.

Listing NGR: TA1182601324

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26316731

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)