East Haddon Hall
EAST HADDON HALL, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1031915
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- East Haddon Hall
- Statutory Address:
- EAST HADDON HALL, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1031915
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- East Haddon Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- EAST HADDON HALL, MAIN STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- EAST HADDON HALL, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- East Haddon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 66759 68306
Details
SP6668 EAST HADDON MAIN STREET
(North side)
18/144 East Haddon Hall
02/11/54 (Formerly listed as
East Haddon Hall (Girls
School) and Gateway)
- I
Country house. c.1780-1, for Sawbridge family. By John Johnson of Leicester,
builder: John Wagstaff. Limestone ashlar with lead and slate roof. Double
pile plan. 3 storeys; south front: 5-window range symmetrical with central
entrance having C19 porch. Tripartite sash above entrance with a blank
lunette above decorated with thin garlands. Similar panel decoration between
first- and second-floor windows. Other windows are sashes with glazing bars,
reducing at second floor. Rusticated ground floor. Central pediment at
parapet level. Hipped roof not visible. West and north fronts similar of
4- and 5-window range respectively, without central pediment, French doors
at ground floor on north elevation. East front modified C20 by removal of
C19 domestic wing. Interior: Double elliptical central staircase with wrought
iron balustrade and plasterwork panelling to walls. Entrance hall has
Rococo plasterwork ceiling with similar decoration over fireplace alcove.
Dining room on north front has Adam style ceiling with similar decoration
to walls and doorcases. The house is set in gardens laid out by Gertrude
Jekyll and Lutyens 1897, of which only fragments remain. (q.v. Sundial
approx 15m west of East Haddon Hall.)
(The Buildings of England : Northamptonshire, p.198).
Listing NGR: SP6675968306
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 360133
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1961), 198
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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