Grendon Hall
GRENDON HALL, MAIN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1040746
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Grendon Hall
- Statutory Address:
- GRENDON HALL, MAIN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1040746
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Grendon Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRENDON HALL, MAIN ROAD
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:
- GRENDON HALL, MAIN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Grendon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP8799460827
Details
SP86SE, SP8760
7/170, 23/170
28/05/54
GRENDON
MAIN ROAD
(West side)
Grendon Hall
GV
II*
Country house, now County youth centre. Late C16 extended late C17/early C18 for
General Hatton Compton probably by John Lumley of Northampton. Limestone ashlar
and regular coursed limestone with slate roofs laid to diminishing courses.
L-shape plan. 2 storeys with attic. Main front of 7-window range. Central early
C20 part-glazed door with moulded stone surround has segmental pediment.
24-paned sash windows have moulded stone architraves. 2 bays to far left and
right break forward with one blank window on inside return walls. Dentilled wood
cornice and hipped roof with ashlar stacks at ridge. Garden front to left is
similar, of 4-window range. Bay to the far left was added early C20. Entrance
front to right of main front is late C16 seven-window range of irregularly
spaced 3- and 6-light stone-mullioned windows, some with transoms and leaded
lights. Those to far left are blocked. Early C20 extrance to right. 5 roof
dormers with pediments and leaded diamond panes. Rear elevation has some early
C20 extensions in Tudor style. Interior: entrance hall has early C18 fielded
panelling and early C20 staircase in C18 style. Drawing room to left of entrance
has C17 panelling. Dining room to centre of main front and common room (formerly
2 rooms) to left of main front all have C18 fielded panelling and fireplces with
bolection moulded surrounds. Fireplace in common room is of local Raunds marble.
C18 staircase with quarter landing and barley twist balustrade has fielded
panelled dado. First floor rooms to main front all have C18 fielded panelling
and bolection moulded fireplace surrounds. Some C17 panelling in first floor
rooms to rear of entrance front.
(Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.241; Squires Homes and Other Old
Buildings of Northamptonshire, p.38: J.A. Gotch; and research by B. Bailey and
A. Gomme).
Listing NGR: SP8799460827
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 233452
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gotch, J A, Squires Homes and Other Old Buildings of Northamptonshire, (1939), 38
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 241
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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