Compton House
COMPTON HOUSE, VICARAGE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190099
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Compton House
- Statutory Address:
- COMPTON HOUSE, VICARAGE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190099
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Compton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- COMPTON HOUSE, VICARAGE 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:
- COMPTON HOUSE, VICARAGE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Denton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 83963 58040
Details
DENTON VICARAGE LANE SP8358 (West side) 15/90 Compton House
GV II
House, formerly vicarage. Built 1893 by Fairfax B. Wade at the expence of 5th Marquis of Northampton. Red brick with limestone dressings, plain-tile roofs, brick internal stacks. H plan. Jacobean style. 2 storeys and attic; 4-window range. Front to forecourt has central 5-light window to recessed centre bay with 4-centred head, moulded stone mullions and transom, arched heads to lights, small shields to spandrels and hood mould continuing string course. Door to left approached by 2 steps with panelled part-glazed door, moulded stone surround and ogee moulding and shield to stone lintel. 2-light moulded stone mullion windows to 1st floor with hood moulds. Similar 3-light windows to ground and 1st floors of left wing, similar 4-light window to ground floor of right wing and 3-light window to 1st floor. Wave-moulded stone plinth, diaper patterning of flared headers to brick work incorporating Ns to central bay. Raised bands of quoins to wings of alternating brick and stone. Moulded stone storey with stone surrounds. Centre bay has taller shaped gable with horizontal keyed oval window to gable. Stone bands to gables, which are stone-coped with kneelers and have stone finials. Entrance front to left of 3 bays has central 2-storey gabled stone porch with panelled door, moulded stone surround with basket-arched head to door, blank shields to spandrels and hood mould. Shallow curved oriel window above with 3-light moulded stone mullion and transom window, shield to moulded base of oriel bearing initial N for Northampton in Garter crowned with marquis 5 coronet and parapet to top of oriel carved with fleur-de-lys and trefoil frieze. Porch has shaped, stone-coped gable which bears date 1893. Porch flanked by 2-storey seated stone bay windows with moulded stone mullion and transom windows to ground floor, stone mullion windows to 1st floor and shaped parapet. Gables over bay windows with circular windows-which have stone surrounds and hood moulds. Garden front has similar composition to forecourt front. Wings have shallower projection. Centre has 2-storey seated stone bay window and one-light windows to ground and lst floors to far left of bay window. Left wing has door to right of ground floor window with panelled, part-glazed door, stone surround and hood mould, approached by 3 steps. On the opposite side to the main entrance is a single-storey service wing. Interior: hall has original chimneypiece. Open well staircase. Plans in possession of owners. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: 1973, p184)
Listing NGR: SP8396358040
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 235490
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 184
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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