Description

SE 82 SE ALKBOROUGH WALCOT ROAD (west side) 1/7 Walcot Hall

19.10.51 GV II

Small country house. Mid-late C18 for Thomas Goulton; early C19 alterations, including entrance porch; central section lowered to 2 storeys and west front demolished c1964. Originally H-shaped on plan, 5 x 5 bays, with 3-bay central section flanked by projecting canted end-bays to north and south fronts, and central entrance hall front to east. Surviving section comprises east front with 2 bays of former central section to rear. East front: 2 storeys, 2:1:2 bays with central bay breaking forward and end bays canted at returns. Plinth. Doric porch has 4 fluted columns with carved capitals supporting full entablature and cornice with triglyphs, guttae and mutules. Glazed 2-leaf door with 5 panes above single panels have similarly glazed sidelights beneath a plain stucco lintel. 12-pane sashes with projecting cills and flat rubbed brick arches, 3-course brick first floor band. First floor has pairs of similar windows to side bays and a tripartite window over entrance with central 12-pane sash and sidelights divided by fluted pilasters. Canted returns have similar 12-pane sashes to each face. Stepped and dentilled brick eaves cornice; central bay has slightly raised stone-coped parapet. Hipped roof. Pair of stacks to rear. Interior. Entrance hall: plaster frieze with alternating fluted panels and gilded urns, pair of fluted pilasters flanking opening to stair hall to rear. 3-flight open well staircase supported on tapered columns has ramped and wreathed handrail and pairs of column-on-vase balusters with square knops to each tread. Ground floor left saloon: moulded dado rail, dentilled cornice, chimneypiece with fluted pilasters and urns flanking fluted frieze. Ground floor right saloon: moulded dado rail, dentilled cornice, later C19 marble chimneypiece. Library to rear left: moulded cornice, chimneypiece with fluted frieze and dentilled cornice. First floor hall has pilasters and cornice similar to ground floor hall; window over entrance with pilasters between lights is flanked by fluted pilasters supporting a moulded segmental arch. Architraves, fielded-panel doors and window shutters throughout. N. Pevsner and J. Harris, The Buildings of England : Lincolnshire, 1978, 168. Drawing by C. Nattes, 1794, Banks Collection, Lincoln City Library.

Listing NGR: SE8778621093

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)