Description

BLANKNEY LINCOLN ROAD, A15
TF 05 NW (east side)

4/2 Nos 1 and 2 Green Man
Farmhouse
1.2.67
- II

Public house and attached clubhouse, then farmhouse, now two houses. c1700, 1741
and restored C19. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar and render dressings.
Pantile roofs with ashlar coped gables. A single ridge, a single lateral and 2
gable brick stacks. Flush ashlar quoins. Two storey. Main block 4 bays, with
an off centre doorway, with 6 panel part glazed door, and a Doric pilaster surround,
supporting entablature and pediment. Flanked by single glazing bar sashes with
2 similar sashes beyond to the right. Above, 4 similar slightly smaller sashes.
All these windows have rendered, rusticated wedge lintels. To the right a lower
connecting wing, with a half glazed door, reached up 3 steps, and topped with a
segment brick head. Above a small glazing bar sliding sash. To the right again,
the former clubhouse, with chamfered ashlar plinth, and single bay gabled front,
which has a large Venetian windows with a plain ashlar surround, and blocked side
lights and fanlights. Above a single plain sash under a brick segment head, and
a blocked opening above. The clubhouse was built c1741 for the members of the
Lincoln Club, a group of local noblemen and gentlemen, probably at the expense of
Thomas Chaplin of Blankney Hall. It once contained plaster roundels each with a
bust of a club member. Source: Country Life, Sept 15th 1944, p473.

Listing NGR: TF0170359136

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569832

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record