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Name of Building: Dalestorth House & Adj. Service Wing & Garden Boundary Wall
Address: Skegby Lane, Skegby
Grade of Building: II
Date of Listing: 06/11/75
Grid Reference: SK 56 SW
Group value: No
Serial No: 2/65

House. Late C18. Brick and coursed and squared rubble, partly rendered. Plain tile, pantile, stone and slate roofs. Ashlar dressings, first and second floor bands, moulded stone and dentillated brick eaves, flat coped parapet, coped gables. 5 gable and single ridge stacks. 3 storeys, 7 plus 2 bays. Central block with flanking 2-storey parapeted wings.

Windows are mainly glazing bar sashes, those to front with keystoned splayed lintels. 

South front has central doorway with keystone and fanlight, flanked by 3 sashes. Above, 7 sashes. Above again, 5 smaller sashes. To right, beyond boundary wall with doorway, 2 storey service wing, partly roofless, with door flanked by single flush mullioned casements. Above, 2 similar casements and to right, C19 sash. Beyond, to right, dressed stone coped boundary wall 15 metres long. To left, ramped coped brick boundary wall, 5 metres long. 

East end has to left partly demolished gable. To right, 2 storey stable, 3 bays, with doorway, stable door and blocked casement. Above, 2 blocked casements. 

West side has doorway to right and above, 2 casements. Rear elevation has to left, roofless single storey lean-to addition. To its right, door with segmental head. To right, again, 2 storey lean-to addition with casement. Beyond, 3 storey gables stair tower with door, and above, a sash on each floor, all with segmental heads. Above, to left, sloping dormer with a Yorkshire sash. To right again, west wing with 2-bay single storey addition. To east, 2 sashes. To north, 2 casements.

West gable has, above, a sash. 

Outside, adjoining buttressed brick garden wall with flat slab coping, square plan, approximately 50 metres each side.