The Gate House
THE GATE HOUSE, BROAD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041077
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- The Gate House
- Statutory Address:
- THE GATE HOUSE, BROAD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041077
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Gate House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GATE HOUSE, BROAD 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:
- THE GATE HOUSE, BROAD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Syresham
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 62877 41690
Details
SYRESHAM BROAD STREET SP64SW (West side) 6/77 The Gate House 04/02/69 (Formerly listed as Syresham House) - II
House. c.1920-1925, by C.H. Biddulph-Pinchard. Coursed limestone rubble with ironstone dressings, parts timber-framed with brick infill, plain tile roofs, stone ridge stacks. Courtyard plan. C17 in style, incorporating old materials. 2 storeys. Entrance front has central carriage arch with moulded timber surround and Tudor-arched head in timber framed central bay with oriel window above entrance on curved brackets. Left wing is timber framed and has 3-light casement window to first floor centre with 2-light wood mullion and transom window to left, similar 3-light window to right, all with leaded lights. Wing to right has central projecting gabled bay with 5-light stone mullion and transom windows to ground and first floors with hood moulds flanked by similar 3-light windows to ground floor. Range to rear has similar stone mullion windows. Interior has dog-leg and open-well staircases with splat balusters and newel posts with ball finials, mostly re-used material and C17; a small room with fielded panelling, and timber bolection-moulded fireplace, both of late C17 or early C18 date; re-used C17 pegged panelling in drawing room which has concealed bookcase door and bedroom with plaster barrel vaulted ceiling. The house was built in at least 2 stages using materials from the old stone barns and brewhouse previously on the site. A plan of the entrance and right ranges is illustrated in 'The Principles of Architectural Composition', Howard Robertson, 1924, fig.132, p.120 when the house was known as Little earth. The remaining ranges were completed before 1925. That to left is known as the nursery wing. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.422; n.a., The Smaller House, Architectural Press:1924, pp57-9)
Listing NGR: SP6287741690
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 234587
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Architectural Press, , The Smaller House, (1924), 57-9
Robertson, H, The Principles of Architectural Composition, (1924), 120
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 422
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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