Boothby Hall

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Boothby Hall is the manor house of the village of Boothby Pagnell, in the district of South Kesteven, in southern Lincolnshire. It is a small country house built around 1630 for Thomas Harrington, which succeeded a Norman manor house of the late 12th century; the latter, one of the few Romanesque manorial dwellings preserved in England, still survives in the grounds of the house. Around 1824, the house was largely rebuilt for J. Litchford by Lewis Vulliamy, a prolific London architect of the late Georgian period. The result is a restrained neo-Jacobean façade in squared limestone rubble, punctuated by gables crowned with ball and cross finials, which echoes the 17th-century regional vocabulary. On the garden side, 17th-century mullioned windows still bear witness to the original building. The house is listed Grade II. It forms part of an ensemble that includes a landscaped park and a 19th-century courtyard farm. No public opening is documented.