Description

BRAFFERTON KETTON LANE
NZ 31 NW (North side, off)

5/13 Ketton Hall
6/6/52 (previously listed
as Ketton Hall Farm)

II

Farmhouse. Late C18-early C19 with late C19 and mid C20 additions and
alterations. Roughcast masonry; roof of ridged concrete tiles; rendered
brick chimney stacks. 2-storey,4-bay entrance front has low plinth. Partly-
glazed 6-panel door and fanlight behind late C19 sandstone porch with Tuscan
columns. Porch flanked by wide mid C20 bow windows. Replaced 12-pane sashes
with projecting sills elsewhere. Hipped roof with swept eaves and 2 ridge
stacks. 2-bay left return has C20 bow windows on ground floor and 12-pane
sashes above. Shorter parallel wing on left rear has a 12-pane round-arched
stair window with an intersecting-tracery head. C20 additions and 2 porches
on right return and rear are not of special interest. The home of renowned
cattle breeder Charles Colling the Younger (1750-1836) who bred the famous
"Ketton Ox" (1796-1807).

(K. Proud and R. Butler, The Origins and Early Development of Shorthorn Cattle,
1985).

Listing NGR: NZ3020119813

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26481386

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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