page_title: William Adams Nicholson
section_title: Country houses
hierarchical_section_title: William Adams Nicholson / Architectural works / Country houses
caption_attribution_description: English: Woodcut print of Bayons Manor dated 1859
context_page_description: William Adams Nicholson was an English architect who worked in Lincoln and was a founding member of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
context_section_description: Worsbough Hall,  Barnsley,  South Yorkshire.  Extended and altered for W. B. Martin in Elizabethan style with a centre and two wings.  It was let to a local colliery owner then bought by the National Coal board and used as offices. When they moved out in the early 1960s it was left empty and decaying. It is now being converted modern luxury apartments.
  Bayons Manor, Tealby, Lincolnshire. Built between 1836 and 1842 for Charles Tennyson D'eyncourt, to designs by William Nicholson and with contributions made by Anthony Salvin. It consisted of castellated mansion with a moat, machicolated and embattled towers, curtain-wall and great hall with a hammer-beam roof. It was situated on rising ground to provide a picturesque scene and to give the widest views. The house was occupied by troops during the Second World War, and was sold in 1944. After many years of neglect it was blown up in 1964.
  Brattleby Hall, Lincolnshire. Small country house of c1780, remodelled for Edward Wright in 1838-9 by William Nicholson, with additions of 1875-80. Three storeyed house which is cement or stucco faced. Three bay front with quoins. Central doorway with paired, partially glazed doors flanked by paired ionic pilasters.
  South Elkington Hall near Louth. c.1841.  A mansion in Italianate style with a tower. Now partiality demolished.
  Oxcombe House. In the style of Nicholson.  Built in 1845. Tudoresque, with mullioned and transomed windows.  Buttresses crowned by turrets on either side of the porch.
  The Vicarage, Brigg Road, Hibaldstow, Lincolnshire. 1851-52 by Williams Adams Nicholson. Red brick with stucco details, Welsh slate roof.  Internal entrance porch with surround of square columns supporting plain entablature and hood; half-glazed door in reveal with margin lights above two panels.
caption: Bayons Manor in 1859
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