Description

SK 9804-9904 KETTON HIGH STREET 15/59 (north-west side) 6.6.61 No 8 (Orchard House) II

House, C18, of 2 parts: original house to left, of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and converted outbuilding to right, projecting slightly (and possibly of earlier origin), of ironstone rubble with ashlar bands, all beneath one Collyweston stone slate roof with ashlar ridge and end stacks. Change in wall plane disguised by plain full length pilaster. Similar pilasters at either end (right hand one only retains capital). Original house of 2 storeys, 3 window range, double fronted. Central door now replaced by window, beneath lintel with keystone, flanked by two flanked by two C19 rectangular bay windows beneath tented roofs. 1st floor has three 16-pane sash windows with cills. Outbuilding, probably converted in C19, has two 2-light casement windows with glazing bars beneath timber lintels to ground floor, and 3 similar windows to 1st floor. Small one-storey additions to left, right and rear. Entrance to rear.

Listing NGR: SK9821204894

External Links

• Wikidata Q26643477

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

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)