WALL, GATEPIERS AND GATES EXTENDING TO APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES NORTH, EAST AND WEST OF DRAYTON HOUSE, AND ATTACHED ORANGERY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1192077
Date first listed:: 31-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: WALL, GATEPIERS AND GATES EXTENDING TO APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES NORTH, EAST AND WEST OF DRAYTON HOUSE, AND ATTACHED ORANGERY
Statutory Address:: WALL, GATEPIERS AND GATES EXTENDING TO APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES NORTH, EAST AND WEST OF DRAYTON HOUSE, AND ATTACHED ORANGERY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1192077
Date first listed:: 31-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: WALL, GATEPIERS AND GATES EXTENDING TO APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES NORTH, EAST AND WEST OF DRAYTON HOUSE, AND ATTACHED ORANGERY
Statutory Address 1:: WALL, GATEPIERS AND GATES EXTENDING TO APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES NORTH, EAST AND WEST OF DRAYTON HOUSE, AND ATTACHED ORANGERY

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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Location

Statutory Address:: WALL, GATEPIERS AND GATES EXTENDING TO APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES NORTH, EAST AND WEST OF DRAYTON HOUSE, AND ATTACHED ORANGERY

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

District:: North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lowick
National Grid Reference:: SP 96280 79991

Details

SP97NE, SP9680 6/76, 12/76

LOWICK DRAYTON PARK Wall, gatepiers and gates extending to approx. 100m. N, E and W of Drayton House, and attached Orangery

GV II

Walls, gatepiers, gates and attached orangery. Probably all early C18 for the Duchess of Norfolk and Sir John Germain, partly restored C19. Squared coursed limestone walls, ashlar gatepiers, wrought-iron gates and brick orangery with Collyweston slate roof. Pair of wrought-iron gates to north-east of north wall have rusticated ashlar gatepiers with attached columns and moulded cornices. Gates with leaf decoration and scroll panelled standards, probably restored Cl9. Square-head gateway in west wall has flanking decorated pilasters. Iron railings attached to south end of west wall, are mounted on retaining wall. Orangery attached to south end of east wall was originally single-unit plan, single-storey 4-window range. Central arch head doorway with rusticated surround. Tall casement windows with glazing bars and moulded stone architraves. Ashlar parapet and gabled roof with ashlar gable parapets. Interior: part now converted to C20 changing rooms. Original roof trusses. Wall attached to south of orangery has attached rusticated ashlar gatepier. Walls enclose 3 sides of north and north east gardens of Drayton House (q.v.). (Gardens included in HBMCE Register of Parks and Gardens at grade I. Cornforth, J., Country Life, 20th May, 1965, p.1216; Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.189; Jackson-Stops G, Drayton House, 1978).

Listing NGR: SP9628079991

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 232510
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Jackson Stops, G, Drayton House, (1978)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1961), 189
'Country Life' in 20 May, (1965), 1216
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 30 Northamptonshire,

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