Little Houghton House and Attached Office Wing
LITTLE HOUGHTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED OFFICE WING, BEDFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1190269
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Little Houghton House and Attached Office Wing
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE HOUGHTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED OFFICE WING, BEDFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1190269
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Little Houghton House and Attached Office Wing
- Statutory Address 1:
- LITTLE HOUGHTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED OFFICE WING, BEDFORD ROAD
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:
- LITTLE HOUGHTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED OFFICE WING, BEDFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Houghton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 80546 59688
Details
LITTLE HOUGHTON BEDFORD ROAD SP8059 (North side) 11/129 Little Houghton House and attached office wing
GV II*
Country house. c.1825 with later C19 alterations. Limestone ashlar, hipped slate roof and white brick ridge stacks. L-plan. Late Georgian style. 3-storey, 5-window range. Principal elevation facing park to east has central pedimented bay which breaks forward slightly and has part-glazed, double-leaf doors with moulded stone lintel, fan-light and side-lights in Venetian window style stone surround. 16-pane sash window to 1st floor above has moulded stone surround and moulded cornice-hood on brackets. 16-pane sash window to 2nd floor above with moulded stone surround. Otherwise horned sash windows to ground floor with moulded stone surrounds and 16-pane sashes to 1st and 2nd floors with flat-arched heads. Storey bands at ist and 2nd floor levels, that to 1st continuous, that to 2nd floor broken by central bay. Moulded stone eaves cornice. 4-window elevation to south with similar detailing to windows and storey bands. Large later C19 stone entrance porch to rear. 2-storey office wing to rear of main range to left of porch with projecting wing extending to stable block (q.v.). Interior: flying staircase in curved well with round-headed niches at intermediate levels, turned balusters, scrolled tread ends, and ramped and wreathed handrail. Ornamental plaster cornices to ground floor rooms. Drawing Room has statuary marble chimneypiece. Grey veined marble chimneypiece to Library. Dining Room has veined black marble chimneypiece to one end and square, unfluted attached piers to other end with acanthus capitals. Grey veined marble chimneypieces to 1st floor rooms with Victorian cast iron grates. The large bedroom over drawing room was formerly used as an upstairs sitting room. Stone and brick-vaulted cellars. The house is said to incorporate an older house. The house is faced with Kingsthorpe stone and was built for Christopher Smyth or his nephew William Tyler Smyth. Seat of the Smyths and by descent to present owner. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: 1973, p294; Little Houghton Coronation Scrapbook, 1953)
Listing NGR: SP8054659688
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 235529
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 294
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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