Description

SK 7410 - 7510 SOMERBY KING'S LANE

Burrough on the Hill
18/121 The Limes with
adjoining service
wing and outbuild-
1.1.68 ing

G.V. II

Farmhouse with adjoining service wing and outbuilding. 1752 and
C19 with early C20 alterations. Coursed and squared ironstone,
partly roughcast, and brick, with limestone dressings and slate
roofs. Projecting quoins. 3 gable, single ridge and single
lateral brick stacks. 2 and 3 storeys, 5 bays. South side has
to left a 3 bay front with moulded central doorcase with keystone
and curved brackets to wooden hood. 6 panel door, the top 2
panels glazed, and overlight. To left, a glazing bar sash with
moulded ashlar architrave and keystone. To right, a late C19
square bay window with a plain sash, and a further sash in the
left side. Above, 3 glazing bar sashes with moulded architraves
and keystones. Beyond, to right, 2 storey service wing with C17
plank door flanked to left by a C19 casement and to right by a
C20 lean-to toilet. Beyond, to right, outbuilding with a coped
gable has an off-centre C18 plank door flanked to left by a
casement and to right by a gabled wing with a sliding sash with
segmental head. Above it, a tall staircase light with segmental
head, and beyond, to left, 2 casements with segmental heads.
Above again, a datestone inscribed 'GC 1752'. Above again, a
large sliding sash. Outbuilding east gable has a barred wooden
mullioned casement. Above it, a 3 light sliding sash. Above
again, a C20 casement. The interior not inspected, but said to
contain an outstanding contemporary staircase.

Listing NGR: SK7569610937

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26472281

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Recommended Books

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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey