Description

TF 04 SE ASWARBY AND SWARBY SCREDINGTON ROAD
(North side)

5/19 Farm buildings at
Thorns Farm.
18.5.88
G.V. II

Farm buildings. 1852, some C20 alterations. Built for the Whichcote family
of Aswarby Park. Red brick in English garden wall bond of 3, slate roofs.
Originally single, now double, crewyard with enclosing ranges plan with
pigeoncote to the west and a barn to the north. The west front has single
storey ranges with dentillated eaves courses, a 2 storey pigeoncote to the
centre and a gable to the left hand end. It contains 2 doorways and a
planked door, all with segmental arched heads and a matching blocked
window. To first floor of the pigeoncote is a blank semi circular headed
opening. To the inner side is a planked door and to the ridge is the base
only of a timber flight tower. The barn has a 2 storey 5 bay front with
dentillated eaves course. Off centre double planked doors beneath a basket
arch with to the left 3 waggon openings with brick piers and timber
lintels. To right is a lozenge shaped breather. To first floor are 3
louvered openings and a planked opening, all with segmental brick heads.

Listing NGR: TF0809440540

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26315025

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)