Laxton Park Gates
LAXTON PARK GATES, A43, NN17 3AU
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233909
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Laxton Park Gates
- Statutory Address:
- LAXTON PARK GATES, A43, NN17 3AU
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233909
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Laxton Park Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAXTON PARK GATES, A43, NN17 3AU
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:
- LAXTON PARK GATES, A43, NN17 3AU
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Laxton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP9685697420
Details
SP 99 NE,
4/148
LAXTON, A43 (West side),
Laxton Park Gates
(Formerly listed as Gateway and Lodges on main road E of Laxton Hall)
23.05.67
II
Gatehouse now 2 dwellings. c.1824 probably after designs of 1806 by Humphry
Repton, extended late C20. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar facades. Slate
roofs. Central gate arch with semi-circular head and keystone. Cornice above with
stepped attic. Square head pedestrian openings in flanking wails have moulded
architraves and cornices above. Identical lodge houses are linked to left and
right of gate arch by the flanking walls. Each house is a one-unit plan with a
kitchen and pantry. 2-storey, one-window range of sash windows with glazing bars
set in moulded stone architraves. Triangular pediments over. Lateral ashlar
Stacks. Flanking walls, attached to the left and right, terminating with a
square piers, each have C20 windows at ground floor. Behind the walls are the
kitchen and pantry for each lodge house. The lodge house to the left has a late
C20 extension to far left. Chamfered plinth throughout. The return walls of the
lodge houses, facing into the driveway, originally had a central doorway with
flanking sash windows and blank recessed panels above. The doorway and a window
have now been interchanged. The rear elevation of each lodge house has a blank,
arch-head recessed panel. The gate arch has iron gates by John Parker of
Knightsbridge. Interiors not inspected.
(Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: p289; RCHM: An Inventory of
Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: pl14)
Listing NGR: SP9685697420
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 409508
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1961), 289
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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