Description

TF 06 NW BRANSTON & MERE SLEAFORD ROAD
1/24 (north side)

23/8/67 Longhills Hall

II

Country house. Mid C18 altered by George Basevi 1836. Coursed rubble, render with
ashlar dressings. Slate hipped roof and various stone stacks. Quoins, cornice,
parapet topped with obelisk finials at the corners. North front, 5-bay, with central
projecting bay topped with pediment. Part corchere with 4 Tuscan Doric columns.
Double doors flanked by side lights. Eitherside 2 glazing bar sashes with moulded
eared surrounds and moulded sill band. Above central glazing bar sash with moulded
surround and flat hood supported on brackets. Eitherside 2 glazing bar sashes with
moulded surrounds. Segment headed window in pediment, and 2 dormers topped with
segmental pediments. West front, 3 bays with projecting bays eitherside. Recessed centre, bays eitherside. Recessed centre,
with Venetian French window, flanked by 2 Venetian windows all with moulded
surrounds. Above 3 glazing bar sashes with moulded surrounds, the central one topped
with a pediment. Both projecting bays have dormers with pediments. South front, 7
bays with glazing bar sashes with moulded surrounds, those on the ground floor eared,
those above with flat hoods, to west a 3 window bow with copped parapet. Above 2
pedimented dormers. Interior has 3 good mid-C18 fireplaces and a fine early C19 stone
staircase with iron railings.

Listing NGR: TF0356966867

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26315156

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)