Oakleigh House

OAKLEIGH HOUSE, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1226852
Date first listed:
23-May-1967
List Entry Name:
Oakleigh House
Statutory Address:
OAKLEIGH HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1226852
Date first listed:
23-May-1967
List Entry Name:
Oakleigh House
Statutory Address 1:
OAKLEIGH HOUSE, HIGH 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
OAKLEIGH HOUSE, HIGH STREET

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

District:
North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Thrapston
National Grid Reference:
SP 99575 78646

Details

SP9978 THRAPSTON HIGH STREET (South side)

16/168 Oakleigh House 23/05/67

GV II

Town house, now house and offices. Mid C18 and mid C19. Squared coursed limestone with C18 brick facade and C19 brick rear range. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys with attic. Main front of 5-window range. Central 6-panel door with moulded wood doorcase having reeded pilasters, frieze with triglyphs and metopes, and dentilled cornice over. Rectangular fanlight with glazing bars forming diamonds and roundels. Unhorned sash windows, with glazing bars, under gauged brick heads with keyblocks. Shallow brick pilasters to far left and right. Rendered plinth and flight of moulded steps to door. Moulded cornice and flat-topped roof dormers with sash windows. Ashlar gable parapets and truncated brick stack at end. One-unit single-storey brick building attached to left of main front has C20 canted shop window and C18 timber-framed side wall. Rear elevation is a mid C19, brick, 3-window range with unhorned sash windows at first floor and C20 openings to ground floor. Mid C18 central staircase projection is visible above mid C19 extensions. Interior; entrance hall has wide staircase with half-landing and stick balustrade. Panelling in hall may be C18. Fielded panelled window reveals.

Listing NGR: SP9957578646

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
424288
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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