Our Lady's Convent Preparatory School
OUR LADY'S CONVENT PREPARATORY SCHOOL, HALL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1051646
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jul-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Our Lady's Convent Preparatory School
- Statutory Address:
- OUR LADY'S CONVENT PREPARATORY SCHOOL, HALL LANE
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- Date:
- 2002-02-08
- Reference:
- IOE01/08379/23
- Rights:
- © Mr Roger Ashley. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1051646
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jul-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Our Lady's Convent Preparatory School
- Statutory Address 1:
- OUR LADY'S CONVENT PREPARATORY SCHOOL, HALL LANE
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:
- OUR LADY'S CONVENT PREPARATORY SCHOOL, HALL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 85809 78095
Details
SP 87 NE 2/57
5326
HALL LANE
Convent of Our Lady
II
Former preparatory school, built as a private house. Early C20. Probably by A. Bamford for a Mr.Berrill. Red brick ground floor and wide corner pilasters and pebbledash first floor. Wide elaborate modillion eaves cornice and hipped plain tile roof. Brick stack on left wing and possible truncated stack to right within flat of hipped roof. L plan. Carolean or Artisan Mannerist style with wooden or stone muillion and transom windows with fine leaded lights. 2 storeys and attics. Main front of house faces rear towards the garden.
The entrance front towards the lane has the wing projecting on left. In section to right the entrance door has flat hood and 2-light windows either side and a large 5-light window over. Further stone windows to left and on left return, and on the front of the wing a window on the first foor over a door and blocked window. 3 2-light casement dormers with curved roofs on main range and another on the wing. Right side has further windows and a dormer above and left side has a triple window at first floor over sashes and 2 dormers over. Garden front is a symmetrical design of 6 windows at first floor over a polygonal bay either side a a central stone doorcase with stone window either side. 4 roof dormers, the outer of 2 lights with curved roofs, the inner of 3 lights with flat and pedimented roofs.
INTERIOR. The entrance door leads to entrance hall with stone chequer floor from which leads an fine oak open-well staircase with column-on-vase balusters and massive column newels. Curving steps lead down under to cloaks which has black and white mini chequer floor and some original tiling. The entrance hall leads to a study on right with a c.1700 style fireplace and then down to the lounge hall which has an stone bolection fireplace. Original doors lead to the reception rooms which also have original fireplaces and to the service corridor. Bedrooms have orginal doors and fireplaces with cast-iron grates and one has become a second attic stair in addition to the back stairs.
This house is a fine-quality essay in the Carolean style with little alteration to the interior which is carefully designed and has high quality fittings including excellent leaded-light windows.
The house was mentioned by Pevsner in 1961 where it was mistakenly attributed to Gotch (q.v. Bryn Hafod, the Convent next door, with which Middlewest forms a group) but he specifically described this house.
The classroom extension to north of c.1973 is not of special archtectural interest.
Sources
Pevsner, N., Buildings of England, Northamptonshire, 1961, p.265.
Northamptonshire Archaeology, Assessment and Building Evalution for the Convent of Our Lady, Feb. 2003. including pers. comm. from RK Hardgrave re attribution to Bamford.
Listing NGR: SP8580978095
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 230117
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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