Description

TF 23 NE WIGTOFT CLOVER LANE
(east side)

8/92 Coach house, gin
house, granary,
gate piers, gate
and screen
at Casterton Farm

G.V. II

Coach house, gin house, granary, gate piers, gate and screen.
Early C19, late C19, altered C20. Red brick in Flemish bond,
hipped asbestos roofs. Cast iron. Rectangular coach house block
with 2 projecting gabled single storeyed wings with beyond a gin
house linked to large granary. 3 storey, 4 bay coach house with
off-centre double planked door beneath elliptical rubbed brick
arch with Gothick fanlight, to left a 2 light window with Gothick
tracery. Beyond to either side are single storeyed gabled coach
houses, each with double plank doors and brick coped gables. To
first floor are 4 windows matching that beneath and to second
floor are 4 further similar windows all with Gothick tracery and
semi-circular brick heads. In the middle of the second floor a
brass fire insurance plaque of the Britannia Co. To left a
single storey 2 bay gin house, originally open sided with brick
piers, supporting steeply hipped roof. Inside a cross beam
supports struts to the roof and a fixing for a horse gin is
visible on the underside. In front are 2 late C19 gate piers of
stuccoed brick with industrial brick pyramidal copings. The
gates and side screens incorporate ironwork of c.1830 with
spearhead terminals and ramped side rails. To the right only a
pedestrian gate in the rustic taste has a barred rail, leafy
verticals and bulbous terminals. Beyond again a 3 storey granary
of 7 bays with hipped asbestos roof. Details of the lower part
are obscured by added single storey late Cl9 buildings. To first
floor are 4 windows and 3 blocked openings. To second floor are
7 smaller 2 light windows. All openings have segmental brick
heads. To left side are planked double doors to ground floor and
a single planked door to first floor, above which is a cast iron
pulley arm with pierced circular decoration, flanked by single 2
light windows.

Listing NGR: TF2574436682

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26526370

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• 
  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair