Description

HARLAXTON
SK83SE WEST END
1315-0/6/219 (North side)
24/09/79 Horseshoe Cottage
GV II

Pair of estate cottages, now a house. c1840, with late C20
additions and alterations. Coursed squared stone with ashlar
dressings and steep pitched slate roofs. Central
lozenge-shaped brick valley stack with moulded stone coping.
Plinth, coped facing gables, one with finial. Single storey
plus attics; 2 window range. Double range plan. Windows have
stone surrounds, cornices, chamfered mullions, and cast-iron
diamond pane glazing. Facing gables have each a 2-light window
and below, a 3-light window. Right return has a central
lean-to porch with coped ends and a small single light window.
C20 door in the left side. To left, a larger single light
window. To right, a rear wing, raised C20, with two 2-light
windows. Above the porch, a stone through-eaves dormer with a
2-light window, coped gables and kneelers. Rear has similar
central dormer and porch.
This building is probably one of those built in a picturesque
style c1820-1840 by Gregory Gregory, Lord of the Manor of
Harlaxton.
(Rowlands G: Harlaxton Manor: Harlaxton: 1984-: 20-29).

Listing NGR: SK8801832551

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585864

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]