Morton House
MORTON HOUSE, FRONT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165732
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Morton House
- Statutory Address:
- MORTON HOUSE, FRONT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165732
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Morton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MORTON HOUSE, FRONT STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MORTON HOUSE, FRONT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- West Lindsey (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Morton
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 81151 91491
Details
SK 89 SW MORTON FRONT STREET
8/29 Morton House 16.12.64 G.V. II
Small country house. Early C18 with extensive early C19 additions and alterations. Rendered brick with ashlar dressings, hipped slate roofs, partly lead dressed, 4 wall stacks. U-plan with 3 bay sides. 2 storey 7 bay front with plinth, first floor band and dentillated cornice, arranged 1:1:3:1:1, the end bays recessed, the central ones slightly advanced, balustrade over central 5 bays. Central panelled door with large square central panel having traceried overlight. Distyle in antis portico, 2 steps, deep plain entablature. Flanked by 2 deep glazing bar sashes with blind boxes with beyond deep triple sashes divided by paired free standing Ionic columns in antis, the flat roofs of the single storeyed pavilions have antifixae at the outer angles. First floor of main block has 5 glazing bar sashes with beyond to either side single glazing bar sashes, beyond are pilasters to the angles. Interior has unusual Egyptian style battered architraves to the doors, dentillated cornices and in the hall a fine semi-circular arch with roses on the archivolt as well as a cantilevered staircase with limestone treads and paired cast iron balusters decorated with paterae and leaf scrolls. The original early C18 house occupied the central 5 bays of the present front, and at the rear the smaller early C18 brickwork can be distinguished from the larger bricks of the later wings.
Listing NGR: SK8115191491
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 196839
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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