- Bag Enderby
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- Claypole
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- Gedney
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- Marton
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- Morton by Bourne
- Morton by Gainsborough
- Moulton
- Moulton Chapel
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- Southrey
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- Spital in the Street
- Spridlington
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- Stickford
- Stickney
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- Stow
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- Stroxton
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- Sudbrook (South Kesteven)
- Sudbrooke
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- Swinhope
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- Syston
- Tallington
- Tathwell
- Tattershall
- Tattershall Thorpe
- Tealby
- Temple Bruer
- Tetford
- Tetney
- Thealby
- Theddlethorpe All Saints
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- Thimbleby
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- Thorganby
- Thornton by Horncastle
- Thornton Curtis
- Thornton le Fen
- Thornton le Moor
- Thorpe on the Hill
- Thorpe St Peter
- Threekingham
- Thurlby by Bourne
- Thurlby by Lincoln
- Timberland
- Toft next Newton
- Torksey
- Tothill
- Toynton All Saints
- Toynton St Peter
- Trusthorpe
- Tumby
- Tupholme
- Tydd St Mary
- Waddingham
- Waddington
- Waddingworth
- Wainfleet All Saints
- Wainfleet St Mary
- Waithe
- Walcot by Billinghay
- Walcot by Folkingham
- Walesby
- Walkerith
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- Washingborough
- Welbourn
- Welby
- Well
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- Welton
- Welton le Marsh
- Welton le Wold
- West Ashby
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- West Firsby
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- West Keal
- West Pinchbeck
- West Rasen
- West Torrington
- Westborough
- Weston
- Weston Hills
- Westwoodside
- Whaplode
- Whaplode Drove
- Whaplode Shepeau Stow
- Whisby
- Whitton
- Wickenby
- Wigtoft
- Wildmore
- Wilksby
- Willingham by Stow
- Willoughby
- Willoughton
- Wilsford
- Wilsthorpe
- Winceby
- Winteringham
- Winterton
- Winthorpe
- Wispington
- Witham on the Hill
- Withcall
- Withern
- Wold Newton
- Wood Enderby
- Woodhall (Old Woodhall)
- Woodhall Spa
- Woolsthorpe by Belvoir
- Woolsthorpe by Colsterworth
- Wootton
- Worlaby (East Lindsey)
- Worlaby (North Lincolnshire)
- Wragby
- Wrangle
- Wrawby
- Wroot
- Wyberton
- Wyham
- Wyville

This building, in the parish of Aby, originally a home of the Hussey family, contains Elizabethan brickwork and timber of a similar age.
The house once had a thatched roof but this was slated soon after the East Lincolnshire Railway was built nearby.
19th and 20th century occupants include J F Rawnsley and the Palethorpe family.
H D Martineau, c.1980

Aisthorpe Hall was built in the seventeenth century and extended in 1821.
Pearl Wheatley, 2011

Alford Manor House was built in 1611 in a traditional H-plan with thatched roof and timber frame.
Unusually, the walls were encased with brick to form an integral part of the structure, making it a rare example of its kind and it is possibly the largest thatched manor house in England.
This substantial property became the home of Sir Robert Christopher who was knighted in 1660 for his support of the King in the English Civil War.
Today, the house is fully restored and open to the public.
Rod Callow, 2007
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"Small country house, mid C17" It stands in Manor Lane
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360036
Now used as a wedding venue and for accommodation.
https://www.allingtonmanor.co.uk/history-1/
DB 3 November 2018

The Old Hall at Althorpe is an early L-shaped brick house with a later seventeenth-century doorway.
Joyce Whitehead, 1980s

"House, now subdivided into flats. C17, with C18 and C19 additions and alterations"
"At the front of the house is a C18 low stone balustrade with shaped balusters on a base of large pecked stone blocks.
It is open in front of the door, and was evidently intended to lend dignity to the facade"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062421
DB 9 July 2018

This house was built for Sir Rowland Winn in the 1770s, with enlargements in 1822 and 1862 (possibly by William Fowler of Winterton).
In 1885 Rowland Winn MP (grandson of Sir Rowland) was created Baron St Oswald and he occupied the house until his death in 1893.
The Winn family sold the contents of the house in 1928; a fire destroyed much of the house in 1933; and it was finally demolished during World War 2.
More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach and R Pacey's book, 'Lost Lincolnshire Country Houses: Volume 2', published by SLHA. Buy a copy.

"House, late C17, altered and refronted early C19 in the Tudor taste, porch added 1873"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1168367
DB 21 March 2020

This hall was built in 1595 for the King family and recased in the 19th century.
It was tenanted as a house in the nineteenth century but also used for a period as a girls' school.
After wartime occupation by the army and a period of dereliction, it opened as a country club in 1961 (as shown in this photograph.)
More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach's book, 'Lincolnshire Country Houses and their Families: Part 1', published by SLHA. Buy a copy.

An unusual house, partly of stone and partly brick.
The brick wing is in Artisan Mannerism style with Dutch gable, pillasters and hood moulds.
Painting by James Hart Dyer, 1994

"Gateway. Mid C17 ... probably part of C17 lodge, no longer extant"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360115
DB 20 August 2020

This 'half-timbered' building is a pair of cottages converted into a single dwelling, dubbed 'Asterby Hall' and given a mock-Tudor make over by Captain D M K Marendaz in 1972.
Marendaz (born in Wales, of Swiss extraction) flew for the RFC in the WW1 and made his name as designer, maker and driver of cars in the 1920s and 30s.
Jean Howard, November 2020

Originally a Tudor house, Aubourn was altered and added to by Sir John Meres in c1600, the architect, possibly John Smythson, giving the hall its present 5 bay brick south front.
The interior has panelled rooms and a fine staircase.
From 1628 to the present day, the house has been owned by the Nevile family.
Frank Robinson, August 2014
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Bardney's Manor House dates from the late eighteenth century.
Pearl Wheatley, 2012

This house dates from the late 17th century. It is L-shaped with pairs of moulded chimneystacks on the gable ends.
The dovecote, with gables and finials, is contemporary with the house.
Hugh D Martineau, c.1980

This large Victorian villa in the French style was built for Herve Henri Andre Josse, a Grimsby businessman, in 1870.
Both architect and builder may have been French, but this is uncertain.
M Josse died in 1893 and the house was sold and re-opened as a sanatorium or health resort.

This house, in fine ashlar limestone, close by the parish church, was once part of a larger house built by Thomas Coney in 1568.
Peter Kirk Collection, 1997

A 17th century L-shaped house with brick and stone bands on the north front.
The Dovecote is dated 1802.
H D Martineau c.1980

Home to the Livesey family of Great Sturton, the Italianate style part of the hall was built between 1873 & 1875 and added to an earlier building of 1810.
The house and estate were sold in 1953 and the house was later demolished.
Postcard sent 1905

"Fragmentary ruin of country house. C16 with C18 alterations"
"The house was deserted by 1810 when the Livesey family bought the Estate and built the new Hall in Stourton Park"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359926

Temple Belwood, on the eastern edge of Belton (Isle of Axholme), took its name from its original owners, the Knights Templar.
William Johnson replaced an Elizabethan house with a new building (shown here) in 1787. The architect was Samuel Foster.
It was developed as a boarding house by new owners in 1900 and later as a school.
The walled kitchen garden is the principal survivor of this substantial house.
More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach and R Pacey's book, 'Lost Lincolnshire Country Houses: Volume 1', published by SLHA. Buy a copy.

Belton House was built for Sir John Brownlow in 1685, with later work by James Wyatt in the 1770s.
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2013

Bay Hall is Grade II* listed and dates from c.1700 with later C18 addition & alterations. It is built in red brick of Flemish bond. By 1994 it had become derelict & planning permission was sought for its demolition. Fortunately it has been saved and restored.
www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101062079-bay-hall-benington
Undated postcard published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd.

Billingborough Hall was built by William Toller between 1611 and 1620 and later enlarged by his son Richard.
It is said that some of the stone used in its construction came from nearby Sempringham Abbey.
More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach's book, 'Lincolnshire Country Houses and their Families: Part 2', published by SLHA. Buy a copy.

The earliest parts of this U-shaped house date from the mid C17; substantial additions and alterations were made in the mid C18 and late C19.
It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with limestone ashlar. The roofs have plain tiles with stone coped gables.
H D Martineau c.1980

Norton Place was built for the MP, John Harrison, by John Carr of York in 1776.
This is the principal front of the house, facing south.
Pearl, Wheatley, 2011
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This was one of the grandest houses in Lincolnshire but was seriously damaged by fire in 1945 and demolished in 1960.
Blankney Hall was built in the 1790s for the Chaplin family.
Additions and remodelling during the nineteenth century brought new stables and a large service wing as well as a new front and attic storey.
More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach and R Pacey's book, 'Lost Lincolnshire Country Houses: Volume 1', published by SLHA. Buy a copy. .

Bloxholm Hall was built in the mid-seventeenth century in Artisan Mannerism style.
It was altered after purchase by the Duchess of Rutland and again in the 1820s by Lewis Vulliamy.
The house was demolished in the twentieth century.
More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach's book, 'Lincolnshire Country Houses and their Families: Part 2', published by SLHA. Buy a copy.

"Formerly listed as west wing of Bloxholm Hall ... Country house, now farmhouse. 1707 and 1827 designed by Lewis Vulliamy, with C20 alterations ...
To the south an ashlar wall, with a fine ashlar archway leading into the former service courtyard ...
This building was originally the north service wing of Bloxholm Hall, built 1707 for Septimus Ciprian Thornton, enlarged 1772 and again in 1827 for George Manners by Lewis Vulliamy. The hall was largely demolished c1960"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1254111
DB 15 October 2020

Information on the village notice board reads ""The Hall" was built in 1867 (Known as "Boothby House" until the demise of the previous "North Hall").
It was reduced to the present building in 1951/52. Originally in a carved Victorian Italianate style, it had its own gas-making plant, conservatories, orchid house, aviary and vinehouses"
White's Directory 1872 reads "Earl Cowper is lord of the manor of Boothby, and owner of the greater part of the soil; but Boothby Hall, a handsome mansion, built in 1867 at an outlay of about £10,000, with an adjoining estate, is the property of Charles Edward Marfleet, Esq."
DB 1 December 2020

This unique Norman manor house is in the private grounds behind Boothby Pagnell Hall.
It dates from about 1200 and is built of limestone rubble with ashlar dressings.
The rectangular building has a vaulted ground floor with hall and solar above.

This is a house of the Georgian period, built of brick with stone dressings and a Gibbsian doorway.
David Robinson Collection, undated

Built 1686 according to a datestone though it might have C16 origins. C19 front entrance porch and bay windows with extensive C19-C20 alterations and rear additions.
Undated postcard by Raphael Tuck

"Early C16, 1637, C18, C19, C20. Coursed dark gold bands of ironstone, light gold bands of ironstone, narrow bands of blue lias and limestone ashlar dressings"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1166332
DB 29 March 2018

Branston Hall was built on a new site by J MacVicar Anderson in 1884 for the Leslie Melville family.
T R Leach Collection, 1980

The west elevation of the Hall which dates from the mid-eighteenth century.
Pearl Wheatley, 2012

The site of the Old Hall was just west of the village centre. It was destroyed by fire in 1904 as vividly shown in this photograph.
T R Leach Collection, 1904

A distant view of Brattleby Hall from the churchyard.
"Small country house now flats. c1780, altered 1838-9 by William Nicholson, with additions of 1875-80"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063335
Kelly's Directory 1905 has an entry "Brattleby Hall is the residence of Maj. Philip Chetwood Wright B.A., D.L., J.P., F.S.I. who is lord of the manor and landowner"
DB 8 December 2020

"Gate piers. c1830"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063337
DB 19 November 2020

The substantial house of the early seventeenth century was rebuilt in the first quarter of the eighteenth.
It was built for the Pelhams, owners of the largest Lincolnshire estate.
Rod Callow, 2004
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Built 1840 by Sir George William Crauford, vicar of Burgh le Marsh from 1838 to 1846. Later a children's home then a residential home for the elderly.
https://www.burghlemarsh.info/history/the-history-of-burgh-hall
White's Directory 1872 has Sir George's son in residence "Craufurd Lieut. Charles William Frederick, R.N. The Hall"
DB 29 September 2023

Burton Hall was built by James Paine in 1768 on the site of an earlier Tudor mansion.
This view looks west showing the north extension of the Hall built in 1808 by Thomas Cundy.
T R Leach Collection, undated

The Georgian House in Burton was built in the late 1700s.
Pearl Wheatley, 2011

This drawing by Nattes, dated 1790, is one of very few illustrations of this fine house.
The house was situated in a large park about 1.5 miles ENE of the village centre.
It was bullt for the Lister family in 1760 and demolished in 1958. A stable block has survived.
T R Leach Collection

Cadeby Hall is set in a secluded valley on the east side of the Wolds.
It was built in the early 18th century as a dower house for the Heneages of Hainton. After being empty for many years it has now been restored.
Nearby is the site of the deserted medieval village of North Cadeby.
(Photo taken from a public footpath.)
Frank Robinson, 2010

This eighteenth century house stood close to Ermine Street (A15).
The hall at Caenby first belonged to the Tornay family.
J T Tweed, Lincoln solicitor and one time Mayor of Lincoln, was a later occupant of the house (until his death in 1910).
Caenby Hall became derelict before the Second World War.
More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach and R Pacey's book, 'Lost Lincolnshire Country Houses: Volume 1', published by SLHA. Buy a copy.

Some parts of the manor House date from the twelfth century, others are extensions or rebuildings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
It has associations with the Tyrwhitt and Chaplin families.
Pearl Wheatley, 2012

"Manor house. Mid C12, early C18, Cl9 ... Originally seat of Tyrwhitt family, sold to Chaplin family early in C18 for £20,000"
DB 19 November 2020

The house was rebuilt in stone in 1810 by Colonel Waldo Sibthorp. This is the north elevation.
Pearl Wheatley, 2013

White's Directory 1872 states "George Hussey Packe, Esq., owns half of the soil, and is lord of the manor.
His seat is Caythorpe Hall, a handsome stone mansion, built in 1823-4, near the site of the old hall, which was the residence of Sir Giles Hussey, Knight, who was with the Earl of Surrey at the sacking of Morlaix, in France, in 1552.
It has since been considerably enlarged and improved"
DB 20 April 2023

A distant view of Caythorpe Hall from public footpath to the west.
"Country House; 1823 by William Parsons, for Col. G. Hussey Packe"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165323
DB 20 December 2020

Holy Cross consisted of a gabled C17 wing with later windows & parapet. Another wing, in the Queen Anne style, was added around 1900 by Colonel Royds MP. It was demolished around 1965.
N.H. Series postcard postmarked 1911

Previously known as "Ivy House".
Dated 1684 above the front door but with C18 and C19 alterations.
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062396
DB 25 April 2018

Coleby Hall was built for Sir William Lister in 1628 and was enlarged by Thomas Scrope in the following century.
Early 20th century photograph
More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach's book, 'Lincolnshire Country Houses and their Families: Part 2', published by SLHA. Buy a copy.

A country house dated 1730.
Pearl Wheatley, 2012

Culverthorpe Hall: the central block of the present house was built for Sir John Newton (a cousin of Sir Isaac) in the late 17th century.
In the 1730s, the wings were added, and the S front (seen here) remodelled in Palladian style.
The house stands on a rise and overlooks parkland leading down to a lake.
Frank Robinson, 2010
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"Country house. Late C17, c.1700, 1734-40. Built for the Newton family.
William and Edward Stanton probably carried out the c1700 alterations and Robert Morris may have designed the c. 1735 alterations for Sir Michael Newton"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1061793
DB 31 May 2020

Dalby Hall (about 2 miles NNE of Spilsby) was built in 1856, after a previous house had been destroyed by fire.
The design is classical - unusual for the architect James Fowler. The bow fronts were added in 1898.
(The house is privately owned; the photograph was taken from the nearby public footpath.)
Frank Robinson, December 2014

Dalby Hall viewed from the churchyard.
"Small country house. C18, rebuilt 1856 after destruction by fire by James Fowler of Louth, for J. W. Preston, later additions by Temple Moore"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063662?section=official-list-entry
White's Directory 1872 has "Dalby Hall, a handsome mansion, erected in 1858, and standing in a well wooded park, near the site of the Old Hall, burnt to the ground on the 5th of January, 1841, is the seat and property of John Wilby Preston, Esq., J.P., the lord of the manor. He and the Trustees of Beverley Minster, together with John Stainton, Esq., are the chief landowners."
DB 5 October 2024

This was the home of the Waterton family. The house was demolished in the 1960s.
undated postcard

The Welbys had a succession of fine houses at Denton, culminating in the one designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield in the 1880s (illustrated here).
The house suffered a serious fire in 1906 but survived only to be demolished in 1939.
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This house was built for a relatively little-known family (the Pigots) and has the unusual distinction of never having been sold.
The builder of Doddington was Thomas Tailor, a local man.
DB 21 December 2014
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This ancient manor house, demolished in 1898, was part medieval, part Tudor, with eighteenth century alterations.
It began life as a monastic grange (of Barlings Abbey) and was occupied first by the Granthams.
After a succession of owners of some significance it became a farmhouse.
More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach and R Pacey's book, 'Lost Lincolnshire Country Houses: Volume 2', published by SLHA. Buy a copy.

This remarkable building in Harby Lane dates from the 1820s. It was built by Samuel Russell Collett who created a zoo on the site.
The frames of windows and doors in Gothic pointed shape are made from crude oak branches.
The Jungle is listed Grade II*
T R Leach Collection, 1972

The hall pictured was built for the Cholmeley family in the nineteenth-century.
It suffered during wartime requisition and was later demolished.
undated postcard
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Undated "Valentines Series" postcard.
Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1885 states :-
"EASTON is a township, on the east of the Great North road - Easton Hall, the beautiful seat of Sir Hugh Arthur Henry Cholmeley bart. D.L., J.P. is a noble mansion of stone, in the Elizabethan style, almost wholly rebuilt since 1805, and situated in the midst of a well-wooded park, through which the river Witham runs.
The magnificent entrance hall contains an extensive display of mediaeval armour and weapons"

This drawing is one of the series made by Nattes for Sir Joseph Banks in the late eighteenth century.
It was owned by the Hassard Short family who held an estate of 2,700 acres in the area but preferred to live in the south of England.
The house was demolished in the 1840s.
More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach's book, 'Lincolnshire Country Houses and their Families: Part 1', published by SLHA. Buy a copy.


The core of Elsham Hall is an early 18th century house, which was added to later in the century.
This view shows the house as it was before the major alterations of the 1930s, when a new west wing was built and extensive alterations were made to the rest of the building.
The restyled gardens here are open to the public.
Undated postcard

Hall viewed from All Saints Churchyard.
"Small country house. 1597, 1642, early C19, C20"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308830?section=official-list-entry
White's Directory 1872 has " The Hall, built in 1507, and long a seat of the Lucas family, was partly burnt down about the year 1771, when its remains were converted into a farm house, now occupied by Mr. Jesse Thurlby"
DB 15 October 2022

This Gothic castle was built for Sir Cecil Wray in the mid-eighteenth century, possibly to the design of John Carr.
T R Leach Collection, 1967

This relatively modest house was built in the 1660s and was built for Lord Clinton using stone from Folkingham Castle.
The Heathcote family became owners in the Victorian period.
More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach's book, 'Lincolnshire Country Houses and their Families: Part 2', published by SLHA. Buy a copy.


Frampton Hall was built for Coney Tunnard in 1725. Additions and altererations were made in the nineteenth century.
The south (right) and west (left) elevations are shown here.
T R Leach Collection, undated postcard

"Small country house; C17 with substantial early C18 remodelling, possibly by William Sands the Younger"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062408
DB 26 May 2020

Rebuilt for Francis Fane in 1733 following a fire which largely destroyed the earlier house.
Historic England listing states :-
"Fragment of early C17 house, main block of 1733 with additions of 1784, 1802, 1840, 1894 and 1934.
1733 house probably by George Portwood of Stamford, and the porch before it, brought from Syston Park in 1934, probably by L. Vulliamy"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1270291
T R Leach Collection, undated postcard

The Hall was rebuilt in brick in the eighteenth century on the site of an earlier stone building.
Broken cement rendering around the porch reveals the underlying brick with stone quoins.
T R Leach Collection, 1973

Described by English Heritage as "among the biggest and best preserved medieval manor houses in England", Gainsborough Old Hall was built in the late 15th century for the de Burgh family.
The brick building has three ranges, the grand Great Hall with its timber frame and massive timber roof occupying the central range.
Also impressive is the kitchen with its huge ovens and fireplaces.
See: www.english-heritage.org.uk
Undated postcard

This delightful temple - commonly known as 'the chateau' - was built in 1747 by James Paine for Gate Buron Hall.
Rod Callow, 2008
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This house was built by William Hutton in 1768 and was occupied by the Hutton family until 1908 when it was sold to J D Sandars.
Sandars and the son who succeeded him after the First World War made alterations to the north front (seen here to the left) and also to the interior (in 1934).
T R Leach Collection, 1980
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This great brick-built eighteenth century mansion was the home of the Vyner family.
The architect was Matthew Brettingham (1699-1769).
The house was only infrequently occupied in the Victorian period and following the death of Robert Vyner in 1874 it was demolished.
Drawing of 1803

Girsby Manor (or Hall) was in the parish of Burgh on Bain and half a mile north of the village centre.
The house was built in the early nineteenth century and demolished in the 1950s.
For at least the last hundred years of its existence it was the home of the Fox family - many of whom were professional soldiers; one became High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1908.
T R Leach Collection. undated postcard

Sir Christopher Wray (1524-92), Lord Chief Justice, built this impressive house in 1567-68.
More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach's book, 'Lincolnshire Country Houses and their Families: Part 1', published by SLHA. Buy a copy.

A narrow, 3-storey building - Goltho Hall - was drawn by Nattes for Joseph Banks in 1800, but this was demolished soon after.
This was one of a succession of halls occupied by the Grantham family and later, through marriage, the Mainwarings and Burtons.
The image here is of the present hall built in 1900 for William Fitzwilliam Burton; it probably contains elements of the older building.
More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach and R Pacey's book, 'Lost Lincolnshire Country Houses: Volume 2', published by SLHA. Buy a copy.

"Former small country house, special school at time of listing. Built 1826 for Mrs Jane Smith, extended 1956"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064426?section=official-list-entry
Now Gosberton House Care Home.
DB 24 October 2024

This house came to William Haigh through marriage in the early nineteenth century.
His son, William Henry, enlarged the house and added Italian stucco decoration to the front.
During World War 2 the house was occupied by the army and it was left in need of extensive repair that were too expensive for the Haigh family.
It was demolished in 1973.
More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach and R Pacey's book, 'Lost Lincolnshire Country Houses: Volume 2', published by SLHA. Buy a copy.


Ellys Manor was the home of the Ellys family, who were rich wool merchants.
It was built in the early 1500s and features a prominent gable end reminiscent of contemporary houses in northern Europe.
It has very fine wall paintings upstairs.
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Greatford Hall was built in the late C16. It was owned by Dr Francis Willis who treated George 111 during his first bout of madness. Suffered a fire in 1922 and was rebuilt in 1930.
It is unclear whether this image is pre or post fire.
Unposted postcard published by Pask, Post Office, Greatford

Undated postcard.
Standing back from the Brigg Road at National Grid reference SE936045.
Greetwell is a hamlet in the parish of Manton and the image has been repeated in that location.

The west elevation of the Hall, dating from the late seventeenth century.
Pearl Wheatley, 2012

Country house possibly built for Sir Ralph Maddestone who held Grimblethorpe at the end of the C16.
Mid C19 alterations and additions.
DB 7 March 2018

The magnificent north front was designed by Vanbrugh for the 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven and completed in 1730.
This was Vanburgh’s last work – he died in 1726.
Frank Robinson, September 2014
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This charming country house was built in 1700, the 2 storey extension being added in two phases in the 19th century.
For generations, Gunby Hall was the seat of the Massingberd family.
After narrowly escaping demolition in World War 2 (to extend a runway for an adjoining airfield), Gunby was given to the National Trust, who now care for the Hall and gardens.
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Frank Robinson

John Harris (in the Pevsner guide) describes Hackthorn Hall as a square Yorkshire stone of restrained detail. It is of the Georgian period (1792) in neo-classical style.
This view shows the south and west fronts. Noteworthy are the five bays and the alternating straight hoods and triangular pediments on the ground floor windows, which overlook the lawn and lake to the south.
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This house was built by Thomas Coltman in late 18th century and extensively remodelled by his son (also Thomas) in the 1830s, renaming it Hagnaby Priory.
It is in the Tudor Gothic style and was designed by Charles Kirk of Sleaford.
It was enlarged and partly refaced in white brick in 1851. Most of the house was demolished in the 1920s.
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This view from the south-west shows the west wing of Hainton Hall rebuilt for the Heneages by Peter Atkinson in the first decade of the nineteenth century.
Atkinson also faced the whole of the house in stucco at about this time.
The porch is attributed to William Burn (1875).
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Harlaxton Manor, built for Gregory de Ligne Gregory, was designed by Anthony Salvin in 1831.
It replaced the earlier Manor elsewhere in the village and was designed to hold Gregory's large art collection and, in its prominent location, was intended to outface nearby Belvoir Castle.
This view shows part of the imposing west elevation.
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Mark Acton, 2008

Built 1710 for Sir George Thorold who was Lord Major of London 1719-20.
Estate sold 1898 to Nathaniel Clayton Cockburn, a grandson of Nathaniel Clayton, the Lincoln iron founder.
Bought by the Lincolnshire Joint Board for the Mentally Defective, who opened it in 1935 as a 'Colony for Mental Defectives'.
Hospital closed in 1989 and is now a private residence.
http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Files/Parish/829/Historical_Information.pdf
DB 3 April 2018

Harpswell Hall was built in the early seventeenth century and demolished in the mid-nineteenth. It was an H-shaped building standing a short distance south of Hall Farm.
The site is listed because of the exceptional gardens that can still be traced.
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1019068.

Harrington Hall has Tudor origins, but was extensively rebuilt in the 17th century and more recently restored following the serious fire of 1991.
Tennyson visited here, and recalled Harrington in his poem ‘Maud’.
The house is privately owned and the gardens are no longer opened to the public.
Frank Robinson, 2011
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"Small country house, now two houses. 1628 with early C18 additions and alterations and minor C19 and C20 alterations".
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1261915
Kelly's Directory 1919 states "The manor was purchased of the, Rolt family by Sir Dudley Ryder, who was Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench in 1754:
the ancestors of the present Lord Harrowby were long seated at Harrowby Hall, now a farmhouse"
DB 17 December 2020

Francis Henry Goddard built Hartsholme Hall on the south-western edge of Lincoln for Joseph Shuttleworth, the industrialist, in 1862.
Lord Liverpool bought the house, estate and additional land in 1908 before moving to nearby, smaller Canwick Hall in 1939.
In 1951 Lincoln City Council bought the property and demolished the house.
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This was a seat of the Bolle family built in the sixteenth century with stepped chimney stack and crenellations along the east front.
At the south end of the east front there is a moulded brick doorway (now blocked) with a two-centred arch and a square surround.
H D Martineau, c.1980

Jean Howard, 30 March 2021

There was a Gilbertine priory founded in 1139 on this site.
In the 1780s a Gothic house was built here to be followed by this house of 1835 in Tudor style.
postcard dated 1918
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"A fragment only of a ruined country house in the Tudor taste. 1835 by H. E. Kendall ...
This was the site of a Gilbertine priory founded in 1139.
A house in the Gothick taste was built here in the 1780s. It was the seat of the Finch Hatton family, Earls of Winchelsea and Nottingham. members of this family are mentioned in the book 'Out of Africa', as is Haverholme itself"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360563
DB 21 May 2020

"Heckington Hall bought in 1862 by William Little the inventor of the once world famous "Little's sheep dip".
The Hall, originally built of brick, is clad in Little's patent stone tiles.
Little along with his brother in law Herbert Ingram founded the Illustrated London News.
He also with his Godson Brothers-in-law founded the village show in 1863.
In 1867 the show moved to the Hall grounds and continues there to this day. Being held on the last weekend in July it is considered to be the largest and oldest village show of its kind in the country"
http://www.heckingtonvillagetrust.org.uk/a-walk-around-heckington.html
DB 28 July 2018
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"A notable unlisted building is Heighington Hall, an 18th-century mansion with gardens designed by the noted landscape architect Edward Milner"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heighington,_Lincolnshire
Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states "Heighington Hall, the property and residence of Digby Charles Legard esq. stands in grounds tastefully laid out"
DB 24 August 2020

Park View House, Number One High Street.
The right hand end of the side by the road is three storeys high with the rafters of a much steeper roof still remaining under the present flatter Georgian roof.
The Dovecot on the far left is over the Bull Pen.
Did the sound of the doves give a calming background for the bull and mask sudden noises which might alarm him?
The farm buildings (Town End Farm) are now separate private dwellings. They were built to a Victorian 'High Farming' pattern; it was the largest farm in the parish.

The Manor House was completed in 1701.
Pearl Wheatley, 2012

This house was built for Thomas Dixon in the 1780s by John Warmer, a builder.
The principal elevation of the house, the south front, has five bays and three floors.
In the centre is a porch with fluted Doric columns and open pediment.
Hugh D Martineau, c.1980

"House. c.1860"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062720
"Worthy of particular note is the magnificent entrance hall with original tiled floor and mahogany staircase leading off to a galleried first floor landing"
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-65222927.html
DB 5 May 2018

"Small country house. 1624, C18, C19, C20"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062376
DB 26 June 2018

Much of this house dates from the early 17th century but there are significant Norman features inside (corbelled half-pillars, a window). The extrior of the house was rebuilt in the Georgian period.
In its early days the house was occupied by the Bussey family and later the Brudenells.
More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach's book, 'Lincolnshire Country Houses and their Families: Part 2', published by SLHA. Buy a copy.
Hugh D Martineau c.1980

"Former Rectory [in Main Street] now house; 1847 by Charles Kirk of Sleaford"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062394
DB 18 February 2019

Irnham Hall was built for Sir Richard Thimbleby in the early 16th century and was an active centre for Catholicism for a long period.
Sir Geoffrey Luttrell was the owner of the estate in the previous century.
More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach's book, 'Lincolnshire Country Houses and their Families: Part 1', published by SLHA. Buy a copy.

"House. C17, altered and extended early C18 and late C18"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360102
"Gates and railings. Late C18. Ashlar and wrought iron"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308812
Pevsner comments that this is possibly the dower house to Irnham Hall.
DB 27 June 2018

This is a seventeenth century house re-faced in brick in the nineteenth century.
It was owned in succession by the Mussenden family, the Cliffords, the Souths and the Hildreds.
More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach's book, 'Lincolnshire Country Houses and their Families: Part 2', published by SLHA. Buy a copy.

The substantial Georgian house here was enlarged by Temple Moore in 1889.
It had been occupied by the Allenby family and then, at the time of the 1889 work, by Allenby's in-laws, the Garfits.
The house was damaged by a bomb in World War 2 and was later restored. It was demolished in 1960 and replaced by the current building.
More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach and R Pacey's book, 'Lost Lincolnshire Country Houses: Volume 1', published by SLHA. Buy a copy.

The present Kettlethorpe Hall was built for Weston Cracroft Amcotts of Hackthorn in the 1863.
The medieval house on this site was occupied by Katherine Swynford and a later eighteenth century house was demolished in the mid-1800s.
T R Leach Collection, 1972
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House viewed from the south.
"Small country house. Early C18 incorporating earlier masonry, with extensive alterations and addition of c.1863 ...
The medieval house on this site was the home of Katherine Swynford, wife of John of Gaunt. The early C18 house was built by the M.P. Charles Hall who succeeded to the house in 1713. It then passed to the Amcotts family, and a copy of the design for the marble fireplace in the dining room is held in Victoria and Albert Museum, inscribed for Charles Amcotts"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359468?section=official-list-entry
DB 18 March 2012

"Gateway with flanking garden wall., gate piers and mounting block. C14 with C18 alterations and additions"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147172?section=official-list-entry
Parish church visible through the gateway.
DB 18 March 2012

The present Hall stands within a medieval moat.
DB 18 March 2012

The architectural history of this house is uncertain though it is known to be based on the Cistercian nunnery of Heynings, dissolved in c.1539.
It was owned and occupied by the Willoughby family until the early eighteenth century.
More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach's book, 'Lincolnshire Country Houses and their Families: Part 1', published by SLHA. Buy a copy.

"Country house. C15, early Cl7, C18, C19, C20"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359480?section=official-list-entry
DB 13 February 2022

This was the last grand house built by the Langtons in the village of Langton by Spilsby.
It was designed by James Fowler of Louth and erected at a cost of £8000 in the 1860s.
The house, in continual occupation by the Langtons, was extended in the 1870s and demolished in the 1950s.
More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach and R Pacey's book, 'Lost Lincolnshire Country Houses: Volume 1', published by SLHA. Buy a copy.

The Andersons were the owners of Lea from the 14th century through to the twentieth.
The hall was unoccupied after 1923 was used by the army in World War 2 and demolished in the early 1960s.
This relatively modest house had a stair turret added by J L Pearson in 1875.
More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach and R Pacey's book, 'Lost Lincolnshire Country Houses: Volume 2', published by SLHA. Buy a copy.

Built in the last decade of the eighteenth century in a position to the west of the village overlooking the Trent valley.
This is the view from the south-west, showing the principal façade facing south.
The east wing (not visible here) terminates in an arcade probably by Vulliamy in 1829.
April 2013

Leasingham Manor House dates from the seventeenth century.
The grand south front, hidden from the street, has five bays and two storeys with rusticated quoins and a panelled parapet.
The doorcase has Doric pilasters.
Hugh D Martineau, c.1980

"House. 1655 restored C20"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1261414
Inscribed shield reads
"K
BE
1655"
DB 8 July 2018

"Country house, now an old people's home. 1883. By Albert Vicars for F Clarke, manufacturer of patent medicines"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388710
The once spacious grounds and parkland have been reduced to almost nothing.
Now known as Grosvenor Hall private nursing home.
DB 19 February 2019

This fine house was designed by F H Goddard in 1862.
undated postcard

This attractive early Georgian house is thought to date from about 1730. It was built for the Nelthorpe family and passed down the female line to the Beauclerk family in the early nineteenth century.
Later that century and into the twentieth the house was occupied by a succession of tenants, including Tom Wintringham (MP for Louth until his death in 1921) and Margaret Wintringham (Tom's widow, MP for Louth 1921-24).
Undated postcard, Terence Leach Collection
White's Directory 1872 reports :-
"The Hall is a neat stone mansion, with well-wooded pleasure grounds, on the eastern acclivity of the valley.
The south side of it was built by Lord Widrington, and it was afterwards enlarged by Mr. Day, who bequeathed it to Mr. Pennyman, by whom the west front was erected.
It is now occupied by Philip Broke Turnor, Esq."
DB 17 February 2013
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"House. Early C19. Coursed blue lias, shallow hipped slate roof with projecting wooden eaves and central stack at rear"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062895
DB 31 October 2018

The earliest part of the house is 1584.
It was acquired by the Bolle family (originally from Swineshead, and also at Haugh).
The house was rebuilt in the late 17th century and was extensively restored in the 20th.
More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach's book, 'Lincolnshire Country Houses and their Families: Part 1', published by SLHA. Buy a copy.

This a long low brick house, daying from the Elizabethan or Jacobean periods.
The porch on the south side has a four-centred arch to the doorway and pediment above.
Hugh D Martineau, c.1980

This was one of the houses owned by the Anderson family of north Lincolnshire. It was built in the 1770s (in Broughton) when Brocklesby was the Andersons' principal residence.
Major alterations were undertaken in the 1860s but it was always infrequently occupied.
The house was demolished in c.1970.
More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach and R Pacey's book, 'Lost Lincolnshire Country Houses: Volume 2', published by SLHA. Buy a copy.

This shows the southern façade of the early nineteenth century building, with five bays of yellow brick on a red brick plinth, and with the rear bay also of red brick.
Jean Howard, 3 January 2022

"Small country house. Late C16, C17, 1699, c.1720"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062854
Owned by the Thorold family who first came to Marston in mid C14.
DB 23 July 2018

This house, with its Greek cross plan with stepped gables, was built for the Sir Thomas Skipworth in the seventeenth century.
It was badly damaged by fire in the nineteenth century.
It was twice occupied by agents of Henry Chaplin of nearby Blankney.
Hugh D Martineau c.1980

This is rendered house dating from the late eighteenth century has five bays and two storeys with top balustrade and porch of unfluted Ionic columns
Hugh D Martineau c.1980

These highly decorated gates (regrettably in a poor state and target of recent graffiti) were bought by John Hood from St. Peter at Arches church, High Street, Lincoln prior to its demolition in 1856.
They date from about 1720 and were designed by Francis or William Smith.
The piers and wall were added about 1890.
The gates became the grand entrance to Hood's residence, Nettleham Hall, which burnt down in 1935.
Pearl Wheatley, 2011

Sir William Ellys built a house here in the late seventeenth century; it was E-shaped with large projecting wings and turrets.
Frederick Robinson, first Earl of Ripon, and one time Prime Minister, was the owner of Nocton Hall when it was destroyed by fire in 1834.
Photograph taken in 1978
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Nocton Hall is now derelict.
Local signage associated with the Village Trail states that :-
"Carol Bennett, who wrote the original Trail Guide, points out that Nocton Hall has been twice destroyed by fire.
The present house was constructed in 1841 and the original in the reign of Henry VIII.
The original was consumed by a fire caused by a rook's nest catching fire in one the chimneys.
The second fire was caused by arson in October 2004.
After the United States Air Force last used the building in 1991, the Ministry of Defence sold the site and its sad decline began"
DB 7 December 2019

The ancient Sheffield family came to Normanby Park in the 17th century.
In 1820 Sir Robert Smirke rebuilt the present Mansion for Sir Berkeley Sheffield and significant additions were made in 1907.
Hugh D Martineau, c.1980

The main front of this Elizabethan house faces south. It is built of coursed rubble limestone with ashlar dressings and was extensively remodelled in the late nineteenth century.
This house was owned and occupied by members of the Monson family until the mid-twentieth century.
It is Grade I listed.
T R Leach Collection, 1977

This large Elizabethan house, occupied at various times by Monsons and Peacocks, fell into ruin and was finally abandoned in the 1940s.
The hall was replaced by a new hall on an adjacent site in 1875.
Postcard from the 1920s

Jean Howard, 4 April 2021

The Turnor family of Stoke Rockford built this house in the northern part of their Lincolnshire estate in 1775.
On the site of an earlier mansion, it was designed by John Carr of York.
Panton was sold by the Turnors in 1917 and was then occupied by a Franciscan college.
The house was demolished in 1964 but the fine stables of the 1770s remain.
More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach and R Pacey's book, 'Lost Lincolnshire Country Houses: Volume 2', published by SLHA. Buy a copy.

This mansion was built for the Otter family of Clayworth, Notts, in 1868.
In 1905 it was occupied by Lt Col Rowley Richard Conway Hill and in 1919 by Lord Charles Cavendish Bentinck.
The Revd John B Haggar resided here in 1933.
T R Leach Collection, 1969
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Internal Medieval stonework supports the view that Reasby Hall in the parish of Snelland was once a grange for Barlings Abbey, 3.5 miles to the south.
Above the porch of the present nine-bay house are the arms of an Earl of Scarbrough and the date of 1708.
Ken Redmore, 2010

"Country house, now divided into flats. Early C18 for the Carter Estate, with mid - late C18 alterations, perhaps by John Carr of York, for Rev Robert Carter Thelwall; later C18 - early C19 alterations for Lord William Beauclerk, and later C19 alterations for Dukes St Albans"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1083715?section=official-list-entry
Viewed from public footpath to the west.
DB 5 November 2024

The first country house named after the twelfth-century abbey was built in the early eighteenth century.
The present house was built in 1844 by William Burn for J Banks Stanhope.
View from the south.
November 2014


This Palladian mansion, as with many country houses, was extended in the Victorian period. Its architectural history is little known.
The owners of the house from the 17th century include, in succession, Husseys, Tomlines and Pretymans.
The house was sold by the Pretymans in the 1930s and demolished soon after.
More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach and R Pacey's book, 'Lost Lincolnshire Country Houses: Volume 1', published by SLHA. Buy a copy.

Riseholme Hall, here viewed from the north, was built by the Chaplin family in 1744.
Purchased by the Church Commissioners in 1840, the Hall was restyled by the architect William Rainton and until the late nineteenth century was the Palace of the Bishop of Lincoln.
After World War 2, the Hall and estate became an agricultural college, now a Campus of the University of Lincoln.
In July 2012, the Further Education provision at Riseholme College transferred to Bishop Burton College.
See: www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/riseholmecollege/ourcampus/history
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This early nineteenth-century house has been converted into offices. The porch has double Doric pilasters supporting a plain entablature.
Pearl Wheatley, 2011

This magnificent mid-eighteenth-century house is Grade II* listed.
This view shows the five-bay frontage with handsome central panelled door with fanlight over; Venetian window above; and Diocletian window on the top floor.
From the facade the house looks down towards the valley of the River Bain.
It has been the family home of local MP, Sir Peter Tapsell and his wife.
Jean Howard, February 2021

View across churchyard with Rowston Manor House visible in background.
"House. 1741 with additions 1985"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1280659
Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states "Rowston Manor is the seat of George Taylor Marriner esq. who is lord of the manor"
DB 19 March 2020

The Grade II-listed Sausthorpe Hall was built in the late eighteenth century. It was then extended and remodelled in 1822.
Postcard published by W.K. Morton of Spilsby & posted in 1938.

The Gateway in Scampton House Field was built as the grand entry to Scampton Hall.
It was built for Sir John Bolle around 1603, but, following the demolition of the Hall, it now stands lonely in a field.
Pearl Wheatley, 2011

This is the seat of the Nelthorpe family who have occupied it continuously since it was built in c.1600.
The main front of the red brick house dates from the eighteenth century and part of the east front was rebuilt in 1913.
Drawing of 1795
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Scawby Hall viewed from the south lawn.
White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states :-
"The parish contains 3216A. 2R. 36P. of land, mostly the property and manor of Sir John Nelthorpe, Bart., of SCAWBY HALL, a large ancient mansion, finely mantled with ivy, and standing in a well-wooded park of 70 acres, a little north of the village.
The Nelthorpes have been long seated here; and one of them was created a baronet in 1666"
22 August 2009

House viewed from the walled garden to the west.
"Largely C17, reputedly begun c1603; early C18 south front with later C18 fenestration; east front with late C18 - early C19 bay window and external stack, and later C19 crenellations and re-fenestration; C18 and early C19 interior alterations; north-east range of 1913 linking with C18 kitchen wing and outhouses. For Nelthorpe family"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1083683
22 August 2009

The Brackenbury family lived in this large house from the mid-eighteenth century for a little over 100 years.
After a succession of owners and insufficient investment its contents were sold in 1937 and the house was demolished in the 1970s.
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Scrivelsby Court, the seat of the Dymoke family, was demolished in 1956.
The house was built, rebuilt and extended on many occasions over the centuries.
Serious fires occurred in 1761 and 1869.
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Postcard dated 1906.
Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states "Scrivelsby Court, the home of the Honourable the King"s Champion, and the residence of the holder of the office, Frank Seaman Dymoke esq. D.L, J.P. is an irregularly-built mansion, partly in the Domestic Gothic style, and standing in a park of 360 acres, well wooded and stocked with deer"

"Manor house.
c1632, remodelled, probably by Sir John Thorold, c1716, with C18 rear additions.
Refenestrated early C19"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1298359
DB 6 February 2019

This fine mansion near Braceborough was built in 1796 for Dr John Willis, physician to King George III.
A number of owners occupied the house in the 19th century and, in common with many Lincolnshire houses, was used by the army during World War 2.
It was demolished around 1960.
More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach and R Pacey's book, 'Lost Lincolnshire Country Houses: Volume 2', published by SLHA. Buy a copy.

This white brick house of the early nineteenth century has a semi-circular portico of four Tuscan columns supporting a Doric entablature.
Pearl Wheatley, 2012

Skellingthorpe Hall was built in the early nineteenth century. The south-east side of the house - in this view - has windows with external shutters.
Pearl Wheatley, 2012

The Hall is a Grade II listed building:
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359680?section=official-list-entry
"mid18th century and late 19th century and early 20th century extensions and alterations”. The tower which can be seen is late 19th century with some blue brick diaper work and a wooden bell turret. The Hall has been home to both Sir Edward Brackenbury and the Gainsford family, during whose occupancy a Roman Catholic Chapel was built in the house. The Hall is said to have been used as the officers’ mess for the Green Howards during the Second World War. They were stationed at RAF Skendleby which was a Chain Home Low radar station. It presently operates as luxury accommodation for large parties and has two rooms licensed for weddings.
Jean Howard 29 April 2023

This early nineteenth century house, in yellow brick, was built for the Westons when Rev Charles Fleetwood Weston was head of the family.
The Chatterton family were its occupants in the 20th century but it fell into a bad state of repair and was demolished in 1964.
More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach and R Pacey's book, 'Lost Lincolnshire Country Houses: Volume 2', published by SLHA. Buy a copy.

Somersby Grange (or manor Farm) was built in 1722 and is usually attributed to Sir John Vanbrugh.
This poor photograph does not do justice to this embattled brick building. The towers which flank this, the north elevation, are almost lost.
T R Leach Collection, undated

Elkington Hall, in South Elkington, was a relatively plain building, relieved by a substantial tower.
It was built in 1842 for the Smyth family by Edward Buckton Lambe.
It remained in the Smyth family until the estate was sold in the 1930s. The house was demolished in the 1960s.
More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach and R Pacey's book, 'Lost Lincolnshire Country Houses: Volume 1', published by SLHA. Buy a copy.
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Manor House viewed from the churchyard.
"House. Early C18 with late C18 and C20 alterations"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1365606?section=official-list-entry
DB 4 August 2022

This large house of nine bays built in the early Georgian period was demolished in 1926.
The Scrope family acquired most of the land in South Cockerington in the sixteenth century from the Vavasours and it was Gervase Scrope, High Sheriff of Lincolnshire, who built this house.
This became the secondary property of the Scropes of Danby, North Yorkshire, and was neglected for the second half of the nineteenth century.
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A large Tudor house here belonged to the Ayscoughs.
It was surrounded by a moat and its front was flanked by octagonal turrets.
Hugh D Martineau, c.1980
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"Country house. C17, but largely rebuilt 1752-5 by James Paine, for the Massingberd-Mundy family.
Enlarged and altered c.1803 by P. Atkinson, altered C19 and C20"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1168647
DB 14 August 2018
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A house built in the early eighteenth century and extended in the 1830s.
Pearl Wheatley, 2012

Thornton House was built in 1826.
Pearl Wheatley, 2012

Designed by William Burn and built 1841-6 for Anthony Peacock Willson.
Anthony's son Mildmay Willson became a Colonel in the Scots Guards and served with the Camel Corps on Nile, 1884-1885.
Hall was requisitioned by the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
DB 25 March 2012

About one mile south-west of the town was Eresby Hall, home of the Willoughby family.
The house was destroyed by fire in 1769. This is the fine avenue leading south from the Spilsby-Hundleby road.
postcard printed and published by W K Morton in Spilsby.

"A grand sixteenth-century English country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire.
It is a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, built and still lived in by the Cecil family.
The exterior largely retains its Elizabethan appearance, but most of the interiors date from remodellings before 1800.
The house is open to the public on a seasonal basis and displays a circuit of grand and richly furnished state apartments"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burghley_House
DB 25 March 2016

Kelly's Directory 1913 states :-
"Burghley House, the seat of the Most Hon. the Marquess of Exeter (custos of Peterborough soke) is a magnificent mansion of stone in the form of a parallelogram, erected in 1575, under the direction of John Thorpe, architect, in the reign of Elizabeth, by the Lord Treasurer William Cecil, 1st Baron of Burghley, and situated in the county of Northampton, about one mile and a half south from the town ; there is a beautiful courtyard and a chapel with a spire :
the park is studded with stately trees, and divided into three portions, viz. : the upper, lower and middle parks, of which the lower is always open to the public ; the middle park is used for grazing and game preserving, and the upper park contains an extensive herd of deer ; the entire park is about two miles in length and one in width, and contains about 1,500 acres :
the rearing of foreign trout for the lakes, which extend three quarters of a mile, is carried on in the conservatories with great success".
DB 25 March 2016

Part of this fine brick building from the 16th century survives on the edge of Stixwould parish.
It was probably built for the Welby family of Moulton.
Rod Callow, 2008
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Built for Christopher Turnor by William Burn in 1844. The style is described by Pevsner as Jacobethan.
undated postcard

This country house dates from the sixteenth century. It was restored and greatly extended in 1912-14 by Biddulph Pinchard.
T R Leach Collection, 1969
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"Plaque attached to south front inscribed "This house was erected by Robert and Amelia Heron in the years 1813 and 1814.
"Jeffery Wyatt, Architect""
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1146985
From 1952 to 2003 the house became a school for children with learning difficulties or behavioural problems.
First known as Stubton Hall Boarding Special (ESN) School, then as Stubton Hall Boarding School and finally Stubton Hall School.
https://www.lincstothepast.com/STUBTON-HALL-SCHOOL/886671.record?pt=S
It is now a hotel and wedding venue.
DB 24 September 2018

The early occupants of this fine house were the Richard Ellisons, father and after him the son. Richard the elder built the house in c.1790.
Later owners of the house were Pelhams and Sibthorps.
The gardens were extensive and elaborate.
The house was demolished in the 1920s.
T R Leach Collection, undated postcard
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The south-facing aspect of the Manor House shows it to be three bays wide.
The lower windows are vertical sashes those on the upper floor are Yorkshire sliding sashes.
Jean Howard, 17 March 2021

The east elevation of this house of 1785, formerly know as Swinhope Hall.
It is built of stock brick with a slated hipped roof. It is listed Grade 2.
Pearl Wheatley, 2012

Syston Hall, one of several Lincolnshire properties owned by members of the widespread Thorold family, was built in 1768-69.
The main block was of three stories and seven bays, the centre three bays forming a canted bay.
The house became unoccupied in 1912 and was demolished in 1928.
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Late C16 porch with Arms of the de Ligne family. Remainder of the house was rebuilt in 1830.
Photographed from the churchyard.
DB 14 March 2018

A hall was built for the Chaplin family in the seventeenth-century. The present hall dates from 1842.
Pearl Wheatley, 2013

This huge picturesque house in Tealby was built in 1836-42 by Charles Tennyson d’Eyncourt, uncle of the poet Tennyson.
Bayons Manor was blown up by the then owner in 1965.
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Perhaps originally built in the mid-Georgian period, Thonock Hall near Gainsborough was re-cased and stuccoed in the 1830s.
Home to the Bacons, baronets, it fell into disrepair after the death of Sir Hickman Bacon in 1945 and was demolished in 1964.
Undated posted published by W. F. Belton of Gainsborough
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This illustration, made for Sir Joseph Banks in the 1790s, is of a little known though substantial house in South Thoresby built for the Wood family.
It was demolished in the 1820s.
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Thorganby Hall, though Georgian in its details, is the remains of a house rebuilt in 1648.
The two-storey five-bay front is seventeenth century in plan with nineteenth century casing.
It was the home of the Willoughby family and later the Nainbys.
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Brick built house of around 1703 with pantile ridge roof. Historic home of the Bromhead family.
Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead received the Victoria Cross for his part in the defence of Rorke's Drift 1879. He was played by Michael Caine in the film "Zulu".
DB 21 February 2018


This house, the first home of the Vyners in Lincolnshire, was completed sometime before 1726.
The estate was sold by the Vyners shortly after the First World War and, despite strong attempts to save the house, it was demolished in 1984.
Photograph 1980

Uffington was a substantial and impressive house built for Charles Bertie in 1688.
The staircase, walls and ceilings were painted by Verrio.
The house was destroyed by fire in 1904 and never rebuilt.
Gates, stables and a few other outbuildings – all in fine style – remain.
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Early C18 house but much altered circa 1900.
Re-positioned coat of arms inserted above the central window. Dated 1639 and probably that of the Elye family.
DB 11 December 2015

This farmhouse, dated 1835, sits high on the Wolds looking west with a grand view.
Pearl Wheatley, 2012

Walmsgate Hall was built in 1824 for James Whiting Yorke. It passed through the Dallas Yorke family to Lord Francis Cavendish Bentinck before being sold to the Haggas family and demolished in the 1950s.
Undated postcard of the west front by T. A. Humberstone of Walmsgate.
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"Small country house. Early C14, C15, C17 and heavily restored 1904"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360567
Now a residential care centre for older people.
DB 24 June 2018

House viewed from St Margaret's churchyard.
"Former small country house in park, now private school. Early C17, sunstantially remodelled c.1730 for James Bateman, extended late C18, for Francis Dashwood, partly gutted by fire 1845 and rebuilt 1925 by Guy Elwes."
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1168883?section=official-list-entry
Shown as Well Hall on the OS 25" map published 1906.
DB 5 October 2024

Viewed from public footpath to the west.
Kelly's Directory 1930 has :-
"Well Vale, formerly the seat of the Dashwood family, is now the property and residence of Major Walter Hugh Rawnsley D.L., J.P .; the mansion is delightfully situated in a romantic and well-wooded valley and surrounded by a park of 170 acres, containing a lake. Major W. H. Rawnsley D.L., J.P. is lord of the manor and sole landowner."
DB 5 October 2024

Viewed from public footpath leading from the village to St Margaret's Church.
White's Directory 1856 reports :-
"The Right Hon. Robert A. Christopher Nisbet Hamilton, M.P., of Bloxholm Hall, owns nearly all the soil and is lord of the manor, but his beautiful seat, called Well Vale is occupied by Thomas Turnell Cartwright, Esq., and is a large mansion, in a romantic and well-wooded valley, containing several ornamental sheets of water. It was formerly the seat of the Dashwood family, of whom this manor, and several other estates, were purchased by the Right Hon. R. C. N. Hamilton, with the advowson of the Church (St. Margaret) which has been rebuilt in the form of a Grecian Temple, and stands on a woody acclivity near the mansion"
DB 5 October 2024

View of south garden front.
"Country house, now offices and flats, with attached private chapel now RC Church. Palladian Villa, built c1760 for Neville family, extended c1800 and again 1876 by J MacVicar Anderson"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147748
DB 28 May 2011

The attached Roman Catholic Church of St Augustine is visible on the left of this image of the North entrance front.
DB 28 May 2011

An early eighteenth century house, L-shaped with an east front of 5 bays. It has two storeys and pedimented dormers.
The doorway on the East elevation is particularly fine - Roman Doric pilasters and frieze, straight canopy resting on carved brackets.
Hugh D Martineau, c.1980


Brick Gothic of the 1840s.
Hugh D Martineau, c.1980
(White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states "J. B. Stanhope and Wm. Elmhirst, Esqrs., are lords of the manor. The latter owns a great part of the soil, and resides at the Manor House a large and handsome mansion built in 1840, and enlarged four years ago")

A seventeenth-century house altered in the eighteenth century and again in 1840. Later it became a hotel and it is now a residential home.
Pearl Wheatley, 2013

Dating from 1737 this small country house is built in red brick with painted ashlar dressings. It has hipped slate roofs with dogtooth eaves and 3 lateral stacks.
The central doorway on the south elevation has a columnar porch with entablature.
The single hipped dormers have plain sashes which flank a central open pediment supported on a pair of consoles and containing a keyed oculus.
Hugh D Martineau c.1980

Willingham House in North Willingham was built in 1790 for Ayscough Boucherett perhaps to the design of Robert Mitchell.
It housed German and Italian prisoners during the Second World War.
Declared unsafe, it was blown up by the Royal Engineers in 1967.
Undated postcard, photograph by C Fieldhouse
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This substantial house in Flemish style was built for the Allix family by William Watkins in 1873 in West Willoughby, one mile west of Ancaster.
Ancaster stone was used from the nearby quarries.
A succession of tenants lived at the hall, but it was largely unoccupied after World War 1.
In ruinous condition, it was demolished in 1964.
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The Petwood was built as a private house in woodland north of the village centre in 1905. Frank Peck was the architect.
The originakl owners were the Sir Archibald and Lady Grace Weigall.
undated postcard

This seventeenth century house was built by Lord Bellasyse in red brick in the Artisan Mannerism style.
The house was pulled down in 1807 and this is the only known illustration.
Drawing of 1796
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