Description

TF 1210-1310 MARKET DEEPING TOWNGATE EAST (north side)

12/183 Towngate Farm House, farmbuildings, wall 30.10.68 and railings (formerly listed as Towngate House)

G.V. II

Farmhouse, farm buildings, wall and railings. Early C19. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings. Slate roof with stone coped gables, ashlar stacks to rear, cast iron railings. 3 storey, 3 bay front with plinth and 3 cill bands. T-plan. Central 6 panelled door with Gothick overlight in pointed moulded stone surround and 2 steps, flanked by single tripartite bow sash windows having Gothick dentillated cornices and flat lead roofs. To first floor are 2 glazing bar sashes having ashlar lintels with raised key blocks bearing Classical carved female heads. To second floor are 3 glazing bar sashes. Interior has stick baluster stair with wreathed handrail. To the left a lower 2 storey single bay service block with raised gable and single 2 light windows to each floor. With beyond a vehicular opening with timber lintel and a single storey farm building with a planked opening, raking dormer and to the ridge 2 louvred and gabled vents. To the right are cast iron railings with spear head terminals on a low wall with plinth. Beneath the railings, the copings are made from re-used sections of rounded arches. To the left is a pent roofed structure containing a flush 6 panelled door in plain surround and to right is a similar building.

Listing NGR: TF1347910862

External Links

• Wikidata Q26458938

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)