The Round House (That Part in Woodford Civil Parish) And Attached Barn
THE ROUND HOUSE (THAT PART IN WOODFORD CIVIL PARISH) AND ATTACHED BARN, THRAPSTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1226090
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Round House (That Part in Woodford Civil Parish) And Attached Barn
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROUND HOUSE (THAT PART IN WOODFORD CIVIL PARISH) AND ATTACHED BARN, THRAPSTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1226090
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Round House (That Part in Woodford Civil Parish) And Attached Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROUND HOUSE (THAT PART IN WOODFORD CIVIL PARISH) AND ATTACHED BARN, THRAPSTON 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:
- THE ROUND HOUSE (THAT PART IN WOODFORD CIVIL PARISH) AND ATTACHED BARN, THRAPSTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Woodford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP9348574904
Details
SP 97 SW
4/170
WOODFORD
THRAPSTON ROAD
The Round House (that part in Woodford CP) and attached barn
II
Farmhouse. Early and mid C19 with late C20 alterations. Coursed limestone rubble
with. slate roofs and C20 brick stacks. L-plan, formed by 3-storey round tower
with 2-storey blocks to right and rear. Tower has large cross-shaped rendered
panel painted with the words 'Panorama/Waterloo/Victory/June 18/AD/1815'. Above
is an oculus and to left and right, at ground and first floor level, are 2-light
windows with stone flat-arched heads and C20 casements. Conical roof, topped by
small railed viewing platform and central chimney. Block to right probably an
addition, has a blocked door, now window, to left (porch removed) and 3-light
windows to right of ground floor and to first floor, all with segmental gauged
stone heads and C20 casements. End stack, then a low link to barn to right of
limestone rubble with pantiled roof. Block to rear, originally stable, heightened
and substantially altered to form domestic accommodation, contains present entrance.
Interior: altered and original stair removed. Built for Arbuthnot family of nearby
Woodford House (qv), after a visit by the Duke of Wellington who apparently
mentioned that the countryside reminded him of the land around Waterloo. The film
'The Battle of Waterloo', directed by Charles Weston for the British and Colonial
Kinematography Company (1913) was made at this site.
Listing NGR: SP9348574904
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 423177
- 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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