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An early 17th century farmhouse, incorporating some medieval material from the site of Stixwould Priory behind the house. The house has 18th, 19th and 20th century alterations and is constructed in coursed limestone rubble. The building is T-shape in plan, two storeys high and has an irregular nine bay front. 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.{1}
Abbey Farm, Main Street. On the site of the priory of which nothing remains to be seen. The present house is early 17th century, altered in the 18th century and later. East front of nine irregular bays with a cross-wing at one end. In the side and rear walls, reset medieval fragments including a 14th century cusped and crocketed niche.{2}
A photographic building record was undertaken on the outbuildings to Abbey Farm, Stixwould. The survey recorded a building and a Victorian, single storey outbuilding.{3}
The surveyed outbuilding is the remaining part of a much larger building (part of a model farm building) constructed sometime in the 1860s. The model farm building is depicted on the Ordnance Survey County Series map of 1905.{4}
One of a number of farmsteads built for Christopher Turnor of Stoke Rochford Hall, who inherited about 20,000 acres in Lincolnshire in 1829 and controlled the estate until his death in 1886. About twenty farmsteads were rebuilt either in whole or in part between 1847 and 1870 on recently enclsoed land, with the finest examples dating from the 1860s. As was so often the case they were npt designed by an architect but by Turnor's agent, Mr J.Young Macvicar. Their unusual layout, which is typical of the estate, consists of an external U, with an internal E, linked to the outer range through a central straw barn. A dovecote would have risen from the central block.{5} | Subjects: | Building | Temporal: | 1600 - 2050 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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