Islip House, and Attached Flight of Steps, Gatepiers and Walls
ISLIP HOUSE, AND ATTACHED FLIGHT OF STEPS, GATEPIERS AND WALLS, CHAPEL HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1191590
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Islip House, and Attached Flight of Steps, Gatepiers and Walls
- Statutory Address:
- ISLIP HOUSE, AND ATTACHED FLIGHT OF STEPS, GATEPIERS AND WALLS, CHAPEL HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1191590
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Islip House, and Attached Flight of Steps, Gatepiers and Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- ISLIP HOUSE, AND ATTACHED FLIGHT OF STEPS, GATEPIERS AND WALLS, CHAPEL HILL
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:
- ISLIP HOUSE, AND ATTACHED FLIGHT OF STEPS, GATEPIERS AND WALLS, CHAPEL HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Islip
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 98955 78693
Details
SP9878, SP9978
15/39, 16/39
23/05/67
ISLIP
CHAPEL HILL
(North side)
Islip House, and attached flight of steps, gatepiers and
walls
(Formerly listed as Guest House, with iron work and terrace garden walls)
GV II
Shown on Ordnance Survey map as No.15.
Country house. Mid/late C18. Squared coursed limestone with stuccoed facades and
Collyweston and Welsh slate roofs. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys with attic and
basement. Main front to garden of 7-window range. Central part-glazed door has
moulded wood surround and fanlight with glazing bars. Sash windows with glazing
bars. Hipped roof behind plain parapet and 3 flat-topped dormers. Brick and
stone stacks at ridge. 2-window-range extension to right, remodelled C20.
Entrance front to left of main front is a 5-window range, similar to main front,
but with plain sash windows at ground floor. Central panelled double doors have
fanlight with glazing bars. Flight of steps with wrought-iron handrail forms a
bridge over a basement level walkway. C19 brick extensions to rear. Garden front
has attached brick walls to left and right, each pierced with a C20 iron gate
with C18 ashlar gatepiers. Interior: staircase to entrance front is probably C18
with turned balusters. Main staircase to garden front has stick balustrade
probably altered C20.
Listing NGR: SP9895578693
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 232471
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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