Description

SLEAFORD
TF 04 NE
BOSTON ROAD
1/201
The Pines and attached
former Warehouse and
offices

II

House with attached office and warehouse, now all offices. c1830 with
additions c1880 and C20. Yellow Ewerby buck with ashlar and
terracotta dressings. Slate roofs. 2 storey.
Former house has shallow pitch slate roof with deeply overhanging
eaves. Chamfered plinth. 5 bay front, with projecting central 3
storey tower, central round headed doorway with double 6 panel doors
and fanlight with terracotta decorated jambs, arch and keystone.
Flanking pairs of Doric pilasters entablature, upper floors has
quoins, with a plain sash in pedimented surround, with small circular
window above. Bracketed eaves and pyramidal roof topped by ornate
iron finial. To the left, the c1830 wing, 2 bay with each bay
projecting slightly, single french windows, and above single glazing
bar sashes. To the right single french window with margin light
glazing bar sashes above and between an external stack.
Former nursery wing c1830 to north, originally 8 bays now reduced to
5 bays, articulated by brick pilasters with ashlar capitals and
entablature parapet above. The ground floor altered by a single
storey C20 addition. Above the former centre bay has a stone plaque,
the remaining 4 bays have margin light windows. To the north a
projecting wing with a 2 bay east front blank on the ground floor with
2 similar windows above. This wing has a 5 bay street front. the 3
bays to the left each have a single glazing bar window, then a doorway
across both right bays, with an ashlar Doric column door surround and
a 6 panel door with overlight. Above 3 glazing bar windows to the
right and an inserted C20 plate glass window to the left.
Former seed warehouse attached to south, now offices. 2 storey, 13
bay with 3 bay gabled addition beyond. Each bay is defined by plain
brick pilaster strips. Tall margin light windows on the ground floor
with smaller similar windows above. The slightly projecting 3 bay
addition has 3 round headed windows in the large pediment. The south
front has a single projecting wooden sash hoist at first floor level.
Interior of house has panelled doors and hardwood staircase with
turned balusters. The main reception room to south has ornate plaster
cornice and frieze and roundel. Grey marble fine surround with
central roundel, flanked by arched recesses with fruit and garland
decoration to the spandrels and keystones with initials "CS" for
Charles Sharp.
This site was laid out as a nursery and seedmans for John Sharp c1830,
it was greatly enlarged c1880 for Charles Sharp who specialised in
dealing in seeds.

Listing NGR: TF0705945590

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26552254

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