ARCHWAY HOUSE OR BIRMINGHAM HOUSES AND ATTACHED WALLS

ARCHWAY HOUSE OR BIRMINGHAM HOUSES AND ATTACHED WALLS, CASTLE ASHBY PARK

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1189816
Date first listed:: 06-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: ARCHWAY HOUSE OR BIRMINGHAM HOUSES AND ATTACHED WALLS
Statutory Address:: ARCHWAY HOUSE OR BIRMINGHAM HOUSES AND ATTACHED WALLS, CASTLE ASHBY PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1189816
Date first listed:: 06-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: ARCHWAY HOUSE OR BIRMINGHAM HOUSES AND ATTACHED WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: ARCHWAY HOUSE OR BIRMINGHAM HOUSES AND ATTACHED WALLS, CASTLE ASHBY PARK

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ARCHWAY HOUSE OR BIRMINGHAM HOUSES AND ATTACHED WALLS, CASTLE ASHBY PARK

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Castle Ashby
National Grid Reference:: SP 86378 58950

Details

CASTLE ASHBY CASTLE ASHBY PARK SP85NE 6/32 Archway House or Birmingham Houses and attached walls

GV II

Greenhouses and garden feature. c.1873 by Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt. The cast iron frame by Clarke and Hope of Birmingham 1868. Limestone ashlar, cast-iron and glass; lead and glass roofs. Pair of rectangular greenhouses flanking triumphal arch. Italianate style. Tall central triumphal arch, round-headed with keyblock, and supported by Corinthian columns with full entablature. Panelled piers either side and flanking arch; plain frieze and moulded cornice. Lower greenhouse wings have 4-bay loggias to north, facing Palm House (q.v.), separated from greenhouses by spine walls, and with round-arched arcades. Greenhouses each have 6 glazed bays to south with pilasters to piers, 3 bays deep, with similar glazing to sides and central double-leaf glazed doors; balustraded parapets. East loggia has external stone spiral staircase to east end giving access to lead roofs. Both wings have attached walls separating loggias from greenhouse sides, that to west pierced by round-headed archways. Interior: triple-span glazed roofs to greenhouse supported by circular cast-iron columns with lotus capitals. Triumphal arch stands on central axis of Italian Garden. (Castle Ashby park and gardens are included in HBMC Register of Parks and Gardens for Northamptonshire at Grade I) (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: 1973, pi45)

Listing NGR: SP8637858950

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 235432
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 145
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 30 Northamptonshire,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.