Wollaston House

WOLLASTON HOUSE, HIGH STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1040651
Date first listed:
13-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Wollaston House
Statutory Address:
WOLLASTON HOUSE, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1040651
Date first listed:
13-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Wollaston House
Statutory Address 1:
WOLLASTON HOUSE, HIGH 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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WOLLASTON HOUSE, HIGH STREET

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

District:
North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Wollaston
National Grid Reference:
SP 90606 62812

Details

WOLLASTON HIGH STREET SP9062 (West side) 22/348 Wollaston House

- II

House. 1856 for George Burnham. Squared coursed limestone with slate roof. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys. Garden front of 3-window range with gabled cross-wing to left. Pairs of arch head sashes to right and triple sash with Venetian style head to left. Shallow gable to left, and similar smaller gables above windows to right all with decorative barge boards and finials. Stone stacks at ridge and end. Square tower to rear projects one storey above ridge with pairs of arch head windows; conical roof with weather vane and 2 stone stacks at corners. Other elevations are similar. Entrance to rear has porch with open colonnade. Interior not inspected but noted as having original C19 staircase. Example illustrated in Loudons Encyclopedia. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.465).

Listing NGR: SP9060662812

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
233633
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 465

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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