"Cross. c.1840"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360344 

DB 1 April 2019

Much of this house was built in 1805 by Sir Montague Cholmeley but then replaced by a Victorian house in Elizabethan style.

It was requisitioned during World War 2 and the resulting damage made the house inhabitable.

It was subsequently demolished.

The hall pictured was built for the Cholmeley family in the nineteenth-century.

It suffered during wartime requisition and was later demolished.

undated postcard

Undated "Valentines Series" postcard.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1885 states :-

"EASTON is a township, on the east of the Great North road - Easton Hall, the beautiful seat of Sir Hugh Arthur Henry Cholmeley bart. D.L., J.P. is a noble mansion of stone, in the Elizabethan style, almost wholly rebuilt since 1805, and situated in the midst of a well-wooded park, through which the river Witham runs.

The magnificent entrance hall contains an extensive display of mediaeval armour and weapons"

A similar view of the terraced gardens, now renewed and open to the public.

T R Leach Collection, undated postcard

The terraced gardens extend over the Witham and are enclosed by walls with an occasional 'folly' buuilding.

T R Leach Collection, undated postcard  

View of the terraced garden towards the west front of the house. In the foreground is the River Witham.

T R Leach Collection, undated postcard

An artist's impression of the terraced garden to the west of the Hall.

T R Leach Collection, undated postcard  

South front of Easton Hall.

T R Leach Collection, undated postcard  

Another view of the south side of the Hall - plus an oblique glimpse of the less well known east elevation.

T R Leach Collection, undated postcard  

The large stone gateway entrance to Easton Hall survives today though the village street has changed.

T R Leach Collection, undated postcard 

"The site of the old Hall and its surviving buildings (on the highest level of the English Heritage At Risk register for decades) is now a thriving tourist attraction as Easton Walled Gardens"

https://www.visiteaston.co.uk/about/the-estate 

DB 7 June 2013 

View from the site of the former mansion across the River Witham and into the walled gardens.

DB 29 September 2013

Easton Park, the home of the Cholmeley family, has seen three great houses but none survive today.

However, the beautiful terraced gardens, designed in the French style in the 19th century can still be seen.

This ornamental bridge crosses the Upper Witham river, which is a feature of the park.

Easton Walled Gardens are particularly well known for the winter snowdrops.

The building in the background marked as a Smithy on OS 25 inch map published 1904 - next to it there was a gasometer.

DB 20 February 2010

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062345 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1885 states :-

"Easton (mixed), erected about 1878, on the estate of & supported entirely by Lady Cholmeley, for 45 children; average attendance, 32; Miss Annie Elizabeth Speake, misstress"

DB 1 April 2019 

"shield and the date 1878"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062345 

Cholmeley family heraldry. 

DB 1 April 2019