Description

ASHBY DE LA LAUNDE MAIN STREET: Bloxholm
TF 05 SE AND BLOXHOLM (west side)

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Bloxholm Hall Farmhouse
23.11.51 (formerly listed as west
wing of Bloxholm Hall
and detached stables)
GV II
Country house, now farmhouse. 1707 and 1827 designed by Lewis Vulliamy, with
C20 alterations. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs,
with a single ashlar coped gable. 3 gable and 2 lateral stacks, of various
designs. Ashlar quoins. Ground and first floor bands. 2 storey plus attics.
3 bay east front, has central C20 glazed doorway with overlight, to the right
a C20, 4 light square bay window, to the left a pair of C20 glazed double doors.
Above a central C20, 2 light casement, with taller single C20, 2 light casements
either side. Above in the central small gable, a 2 light casement, plus inscrip-
tion, G.M.1827. Either side are single 2 light wooden gable dormers. To the
south a slightly projecting, tall 2 storey tower, with rusticated quoins and
moulded bands. Each floor has a single round arched moulded ashlar opening,
the whole topped with a parapet and a small square lantern. Beyond to the south,
a single storey wing, articulated with round-headed blind openings with moulded
ashlar surrounds, linked by an impost band. This wing is now in a very dilapi-
dated state. Originally it adjoined the former house, and a small section of
the walling and the jamb of one of the original, upper cross mullion windows
survives. To the north a single storey link, with a C20, 3 light casement,
joins the house to a square outbuilding, with 3 blind openings with round arched
louvred openings above, linked by an impost band and with moulded ashlar
surrounds. The building is topped with a hipped slate roof with a square
louvred lantern. A arched wall joins the north west corner of this outbuilding
to the rear wing of the house. This rear wing has a 2 bay west front, with
2 moulded, round headed blind arches, linked by a moulded impost band. Above
2 wooden cross casements with glazing bars, in moulded ashlar surrounds, linked
by a cill band. Above a simple moulded ashlar cornice, and a single ashlar
dormer, with 2 light glazing bar casements with scroll bracket jambs and a pedi-
ment. To the south an ashlar wall, with a fine ashlar archway leading into
the former service courtyard. This archway has rusticated ashlar piers, a
moulded impost band, a large moulded, round arch, with double keystone and above
a moulded ashlar cornice and the remnants of a parapet. This building was
originally the north service wing of Bloxholm Hall, built 1707 for Septimus
Ciprian Thornton, enlarged 1772 and again in 1827 for George Manners by
Lewis Vulliamy. The hall was largely demolished c1960.

Listing NGR: TF0636953857

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26545799

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