EYDON HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1040463
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1953
List Entry Name:: EYDON HALL
Statutory Address:: EYDON HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1040463
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1953
List Entry Name:: EYDON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: EYDON HALL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: EYDON HALL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Eydon
National Grid Reference:: SP 53978 49791

Details

EYDON SP54NW 3/54 Eydon Hall 11/9/53

GV I

Country house. 1789-91 for the Rev. Francis Annesley by James Lewis. Minor internal alterations c.1930 by Sir Herbert Baker. Ironstone ashlar with limestone dressings, said to have been quarried in the estate. Hipped slate roof, stone stacks. Square plan with entrance to hall to north, flanked by Study and Dressing Room. Central top-lit Staircase Hall. Drawing Room and Dining Room to south and south-east. Service court to east. 2 storeys, basement and attic, 5 bays. Entrance to north has pediment over 3 centre bays. 9-pane sash windows with plain stone frames in basement. Central doorway approached by stone steps with C20 cast iron balustrade. Doorway has moulded stone architrave, flat hood on carved brackets and 4-panel double door with fanlight. Sash windows on either side have moulded stone architraves. Similar windows in outer bays have cast iron balconies and are set in recessed niches. String course at first floor level. Stone panel above 3 centre bays carved with swags and rosettes. Sash windows on first floor with moulded architraves. Dentil cornice and balustraded parapet. Garden front has portico with 4 unfluted Ionic columns, straight entablature with frieze of acanthus scrolls and balustrade with stone panel in centre carved with Annesley arms. It is approached by stone steps with cast iron balustrade. Interior: Hall has marble fireplace, the frieze with a relief of cherubs. Black and white marble floor said to be c,1930 by Sir Herbert Baker. Open well staircase with glazed oval dome and cantilevered stone stair with cast iron balustrade. Main rooms have narrow ornamental plaster cornices. "A house of moderate size and great, if reticent elegance" (Pevsner). The plans and elevations are illustrated in James Lewis's "original Designs in Architecture", Vol.II, 1797. Francis Annesley was Rector of Chedzoy, Somerset. Some of his letters referring to the building of Eydon Hall in the Northamptonshire Record Office. His nephew, Arthur Annesley, Earl of Anglesey, employed Lewis to remodel his house at Bletchington, Oxon in 1782, to which he added a similar portico. The old Manor House stood east of the church and was demolished in the late C18. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.211; H.M. Colvin, Biographical Dictionary of Architects, p.518; M. Binney, Eydon hall, Country Life, Vol.149, January 21st, 1971, p.128-131).

Listing NGR: SP5397849791

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 234083
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 518
Lewis, J, Original Designs in Architecture, (1797)
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 211
'Country Life' in 21 January, , Vol. 149, (1971), 128-131

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.