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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- 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.
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:
- 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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