Kingsley House
KINGSLEY HOUSE, BISHOPS WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126879
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Kingsley House
- Statutory Address:
- KINGSLEY HOUSE, BISHOPS WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126879
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1962
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Feb-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Kingsley House
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGSLEY HOUSE, BISHOPS WALK
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:
- KINGSLEY HOUSE, BISHOPS WALK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Peterborough (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnack
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 07829 04942
Details
1. 5141 BARNACK BISHOP'S WALK Kingsley House TF 0704 39/56 19.3.62 II GV 2. Formerly The Rectory. Early C16 house extended in 1880. C16 cross wing is to the north, coursed stone rubble with new tile roof with gabled ends, in the end wall there is a C19 gothic oriel window. The C16 link wing has been demolished except for its east front wall which is 2 storeys and 3 bays with stone mullion windows and buttresses with set-offs. Adjoining south, the main house was built in 1880 in early C16 style, coursed stone with freestone dressings. Asymmetrical L-shaped on plan. Two storeys. Parapets with moulded coping and string courses. East front has projecting 2 storeyed porch off centre with oriel with battlements and moulded 2 centred arch doorway below. Gable to left. Two and three-light windows to right ground floor have gothic tracery. The south front has canted bay to right, pointed arch stair window at centre and gable to left with corbelled chimney stack, all chimney stacks are crenellated. The house was a rectory in the time of Rigus Fletcher, chaplain to Mary Queen of Scots, rector from 1586-1590. The father of Charles Kingsley was rector here in the early C19, the latter being five when he came here in 1824. His younger brothers George and Henry were born here in 1827 and 1830. VCH Northants, vol II, page 463.
Listing NGR: TF0782904942
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 49840
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ryland, W, Adkins, D, Sejeantson, R, The Victoria History of the County of Northampton, (1906), 463
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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