Polebrook Hall and Attached Wall With Gatearch
POLEBROOK HALL AND ATTACHED WALL WITH GATEARCH, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190769
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Polebrook Hall and Attached Wall With Gatearch
- Statutory Address:
- POLEBROOK HALL AND ATTACHED WALL WITH GATEARCH, MAIN STREET
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- Date:
- 1999-09-12
- Reference:
- IOE01/00639/13
- Rights:
- © Mr JM Webber. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190769
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Polebrook Hall and Attached Wall With Gatearch
- Statutory Address 1:
- POLEBROOK HALL AND ATTACHED WALL WITH GATEARCH, MAIN STREET
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:
- POLEBROOK HALL AND ATTACHED WALL WITH GATEARCH, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Polebrook
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 06996 87074
Details
TL08NE, TL0687
9/118, 19/118
25/05/67
POLEBROOK
MAIN STREET
(South side)
Polebrook Hall and attached
wall with gatearch
II
Country house. C17, datestone 1719, enlarged and remodelled 1881 as dated
rainwater head and probably later C19. Squared coursed limestone with
Collyweston slate roof. Originally H-shape plan, then complex, now irregular
U-shaped. Main front is a 4-window range. End bays break forward as shallow
projecting gabled wings. Central C19 gabled porch has side lights and ashlar
parapets. Windows immediately left and right of porch are 2-light stone
mullions, those at first floor are C17. Projecting wings have C19 four light
stone mullion windows. Ashlar gable parapets, kneelers and finials and ashlar
stacks at ridge. Central ashlar lateral stack above porch is probably C19.
2-window range to right is c1881 with 3-light stone mullion windows to first
floor and similar 2-light windows to ground floor. The right gable and parts of
the left gable were refaced c1881. Elevation to left of main front has central,
2-storey, square bay window with stone mullions; restored C19. Range to left has
higher eaves and was added c1719. Gable end of this range has 2-window range of
sash windows with glazing bars and moulded stone architraves. Rusticated quoins
and ashlar gable parapets. Datestone in apex of gable. Rear elevation has centre
of 4 windows with gable to left and some C17 stone mullion windows. Range to
left is late C19 with shallow stone mullion oriel window at first floor. A late
C19 range linking the two projecting wings, at the rear, was removed mid C20.
Interior: entrance hall to centre of main front has open fireplace with moulded
bressumer restored late C19. Staircase hall to left of entrance hall has C18
staircase, with 3 turned balusters per tread, rising around an open well. C18
panelling is probably reset. Room to front left of entrace hall has reset C17
panelling, door is dated 1627. Room to rear left has reset C17 fireplace with
4-centred arch head. Room to right of entrance hall has overmantel with some
reset Jacobean panels. Room to first floor front left and staircase hall have
coved ceilings and may originally have been one first floor chamber. Room to
first floor rear left has C18 fielded panelling. First floor room to right has
reset C17 panelling with a decorated frieze. Room adjacent to far right has
overmantel decorated with small turned balusters and inset picture, and is dated
1842. Wall attached to left of main front has gatearch, with reset C17 moulded
stone surround, with 4-centred arch head.
(RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p136;
National Monuments Record; Photographic Collection)
Listing NGR: TL0699687074
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 232673
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire, (1984)
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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