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Description: | A remarkable 14th century manor house made almost entirely of chalk which is very rare in Lincolnshire. {1}{2}
Attached to the west end of the farm house are the remains of the 14th century house of the South family. It is a rectangle of two storeys. The room below has a piscina (chapel?) and the room above has a hooded fireplace on corbelled brackets and blocked pointed entrances in the east wall. In the west front are two windows, one of three lights with cusped ogee tracery and a drip mould on head corbels. This is of the Decorated period of English Gothic, ie c.1290 to c.1350. {3}
For the full description and the legal address of this listed building please refer to the appropriate List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. {4} | Subjects: | Building | Temporal: | 1250 - 2050 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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