Description

HARLAXTON
SK8832 HIGH STREET
1315-0/14/186 (West side)
24/09/79 No.26
Conygree
GV II

Pair of estate cottages, now a house. Mid C18, remodelled 1796
and mid C19, altered late C20. Red brick with ashlar dressings
and concrete pantile roof. Central ridge stack and 2 gable
stacks, brick with stone coping and square raised bosses.
Coped gables with kneelers and ball finials. 2 storeys; 4
window range. Windows mainly have stone mullions and brick
flat arches. Front has eaves with stone modillions. Four
2-light windows, mainly reglazed, and above them, Renaissance
Revival style blank dormers with volutes and ball finials.
Each dormer has a blank raised panel. Below, 2 cross mullioned
windows flanked to left by an ashlar doorcase with panelled
pilasters and scroll brackets and a broken segmental pediment
containing a ball finial on a bracket. To right, an ashlar
doorcase with double keystone, partly blocked and altered to a
window. Rear has dentillated brick eaves. Rear and returns
have mid C20 fenestration.
This building is the most elaborate of those built or altered
c1790-1820 by George de Ligne Gregory, and altered c1820-1840
by Gregory Gregory, successive Lords of the Manor of
Harlaxton.
(Rowlands G: Harlaxton Manor: Harlaxton: 1984-: 20-29).

Listing NGR: SK8842132692

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26529955

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)