Catesby House
CATESBY HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1075311
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Catesby House
- Statutory Address:
- CATESBY HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1075311
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Catesby House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CATESBY HOUSE
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:
- CATESBY HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Catesby
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 52366 59463
Details
CATESBY UPPER CATESBY SP55NW 4/45 Catesby House - II Country House. Built 1863 in Jacobean style but incorporating material from Old Catesby House; enlarged 1894. Ironstone ashlar with limestone dressings, tile roof, stone stacks. 2 storeys and attic. Double-depth plan. Principal front to garden: 3-window range with central part-glazed C20 door in early C18 moulded stone surround with straight hood on console brackets. Bays left and right break forward and have re-used chamfered quoins to angles of ground floor and single-storey bay windows with mullioned and transomed windows. 2-light mullioned and transomed windows to first floor. String course to first floor and over upper windows. Plain coped parapet over central bay, elaborate shaped gables with obelisk finials to left and right with round arched windows, that to right blocked. Slightly lower 2-window range to left with mullioned and transomed windows. Right side elevation has 2 two-storey bay windows with ornamental pierced and shaped parapets with obelisk finials. Shaped gable ends. Entrance front has shaped gable flanked by tall thin stacks over projecting central bay with single-storey porch. Porch has round-headed arch with strapwork in spandrels flanked by pilasters and shaped gable with obelisk finial. 2-light mullioned and transomed windows left and right to ground and first floors. Inset strapwork panels above first floor windows. A service wing with C20 garage projects to right. Interior: staircase hall has C16 linenfold panelling said to come from Catesby Priory, late C17 doorcases with open segmental pediments to Music Room and Dining Room left and right at foot of staircase. Late C17 staircase with big barley sugar balusters. Dining room has late C17 reused panelling with moulded raised panels and doorcase with open segmental pediment. Music room has elegant French-style panelling, plasterwork and statuary marble chimneypiece probably of 1894. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.145; Rev. S.H. Marriott, Some Notes for a History of Catesby, 1932, p.16).
Listing NGR: SP5236659463
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 360535
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1961), 145
Other
Marriott, SH, Some Notes for a History of Catesby,
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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