Description

TA 1001-1101
9/91

CAISTOR
SOUTH STREET
(east side)
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 battered brick
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: TA1186001299

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26316738

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