West Street, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, £500k
Listed grade ii*, this early 18th century house represents amazing value for money, having six bedrooms and a separate holiday cottage and stables. It is rather similar to the houses featured below in Beverley and Kings Lyn. I don’t know why being by the side of a road in Horncastle doesn’t seem as bad as being by the side of a road in Kirkby Lonsdale, see below, I suppose it is just the difference in the price that makes one acceptable and the other not so much.
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Horncastle is a nice town, famous for its antique shops, it also has lots of nice little tea rooms and a Grammar School. It seems the current owners have made good use of the local trade and the house is decorated and furnished fittingly in good, period taste, on the whole.
Here is the beautiful, spacious entrance hall tastefully decorated in white and Regency grey and furnished elegantly, not over stuffed. The early eighteenth century staircase is painted in off white to make it nice and bright. I’m not sure how this would fare under the strain of dogs and children, a patterned runner might be required. Three balusters per tread, a sign of both the period and the high status of the house.
The ground floor reception rooms are painted in suitable shades of 18th century green which compliments mahogany furniture so well. The Adam’s style mirror above the dining room fireplace is good, it’s a pity the fireplace itself is 19th, rather than 18th century, but at least it isn’t modern. The dining room could do with a bigger table, or more leaves in, for the photograph, is this an estate
agents thing? Do they think dining rooms look bigger with smaller tables in, or tables reduced to
their shortest length? It could also do with a nice big Flemish bronze chandelier above the table and a good big Regency, pedestal sideboard, and a china cabinet, packed with antique dinner services and lead crystal glass ware.
The music room is big enough for a grand piano and a period bureau. You can tell that the owners are musical people who actually play their piano, by the lamp they have to light the music and the fact they are clearly people of good taste.
At last, here is an almost free standing kitchen. Well done! No naff units, there is nothing worse than the height of fashion from ten years ago in a period home. They could do with more of their country Chippendale chairs or some Lancashire ladder back rush seated ones, or a refectory bench up to a big early 18th century oak table and one or two other items of kitchen furniture, a dough bin, perhaps or an old coffer or two, a salt box and a candle box on the walls, a small 17th century livery cupboard perhaps, but still, they have the right idea.
This is one of the bedrooms on the second floor I’d like to wake up and look out of this window,
down at the street coming to life.
This is the most glorious room in the house. It has its original 18th century paneling and seems to be of a more impressive height than the ground floor reception rooms. It is a lovely, warm period colour. I would love to own that William Kent style early 18th century mirror above the fireplace. It is the perfect mirror for that house in that place. The chandelier is the perfect style and size too. All in all a very good job.
And look at all the extra you get out at the back, and the beautifully maintained gardens and the big blue Lincolnshire sky!
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