Description

TQ 04 NW ST MARTHA CP LOCKNER HOLT

4/93 Lockner Holt

II

House, now divided. 1860 by Henry Woodyer for the Duke of Northumberland
in castellated style, extended to left and rear in 1890. Coursed Bargate
stone with sandstone and brick dressings, plain tiled roofs. L-shaped
plan with projecting wing to left and courtyard in re-entrant angle. Two
storeys with attics in stepped gables on left hand wing. Plinth, string
course to base of battlemented parapets and over ground floor. Ridge
stack to centre, front stack to left of centre, ridge stacks on left hand
wing and front end stack to stepped gable to right. Stone dressed,
trefoil-head arched fenestration - mainly three light with two windows
on each floor to right of centre. First floor window over entrance in
angled bay placed diagonally across re-entrant angle. Five light window
to right of door. Circular tower to left of entrance under conical roof
with corbelled eaves. Lancet windows below. Further stone dressed
windows to left on projecting wing. Stone frontispiece to angle bay
across re-entrant angle under string course with crests either side of
pointed arched door under flat hoodmould.

Interior: Plaster ceilings, panelled with foliage decoration in drawing
room. Wooden Gothic style panelling, cusped and panelled ceiling in
billiard room. Siennese marble fireplace in former library with arcaded
panelling. Main stairway with carved newel posts in Gothic style.

Entrance hall: Panelled and containing massive marble fireplace under
complex crocketed and finialled Gothic overmantle. Original door lock
and mechanism survive on main door.

Listing NGR: TQ0392747072

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26483857

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)