Building record MLI84518 - Ashby Hall, Ashby de la Launde and Bloxholm

Summary

Ashby Hall, Ashby de la Launde and Bloxholm

Type and Period (3)

  • (Post Medieval to Modern - 1595 AD to 2050 AD)
  • (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD? to 1595 AD?)
  • (Post Medieval to Modern - 1800 AD? to 2050 AD)

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Full Description

PRN 62806 This record is for the house only. For a history of Ashby Hall and its surrounding gardens, see PRN64076. Country house now country club. Constructed in the early and late sixteenth century by Edward King. Built from coursed limestone rubble and ashlar with a fishscale tile roof with coped gables, kneelers and finials plus a pierced quarterfoil paprapet. It was much rebuilt in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 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} Ashby Hall is much altered, with the exterior encased in the 19th century. Basically it is a U-plan house, but of this U-plan the west range is E-plan, i.e it has three projections to the west. The front looks mostly 19th century and has a re-set two-storey porch with crockets and obelisks. The entrance has Doric columns and an equilateral pediment, dated to 1595. At the south end of the east front is a nicely rounded 18th century bow. At the first floor level is an unexplained 16th century doorway, apparently in situ, with a four centred arch. Another appears inside. The interior shows evidence for early 18th century remodelling, with bolection-moulded fireplace and keyed arches.{2} Ashby Hall. Part dating from 1595 and built by Edward King. Much rebuilt on the late 18th and 19th centuries.{3} A large, romantic-looking ancient stone mansion, with mullioned windows, gables and elaborate chimneys. A date carved in stone on a porch claims '1595', although the date is not convincing. Indeed the whole hard-fronted edifice appears not sixteenth-century, but nineteenth. Again on the south front there is a handsome stone bow window displaying Georgian sashes.{4} Aerial photograph depicting the west facing side of Ashby Hall and the attached stable block (PRN 63910) and associated hexagonal walled garden (PRN 63912).{5} A series of photographs and reconstruction drawings of the hall form part of a recent historical study of the village of Ashby de la Launde.{6} The study of Ashby Hall suggests that the present hall was built on the site of a much earlier Norman hall, and that part of the hall (a 'Norman' gable end) has be incorporated into the fabric of the present hall. This has yet to be verified.{6} Ashby Hall, Ashby De La Launde and Bloxholm. Extant 19th century farmstead. Regular courtyard with linked working buildings to all four sides of the yard. The farmhouse is detached with the gable end facing on to the yard. Located within a Church and/or Manor farm group. {7}

Sources/Archives (7)

  •  Index: Department of the Environment. 1987. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. 2/7 (016.009).
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Nikolaus Pevsner and John Harris, with Nicholas Antram. 1989. Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (Second Edition). P106.
  •  Index: ASHBY DE LA LAUNDE AND BLOXHOLM SMR FILE. ASHBY DE LA LAUNDE AND BLOXHOLM. TF 05 NE; AJ.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Thorold, Henry. 1999. Lincolnshire Houses. pp 111-112.
  •  Aerial Photograph: 1945-84. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY COLLECTION. AWX9.
  •  Digital Archive: Bauer, E.. Aug 2006. Ashby de la Launde Historical PowerPoint Presentation.
  •  Digital Archive: English Heritage. 2015. English Heritage Farmsteads Project. 6375.

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Grid reference Centred TF 05257 55298 (31m by 44m)
Civil Parish ASHBY DE LA LAUNDE AND BLOXHOLM, NORTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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