Service Wing and Attached Chapel at Laxton Hall
SERVICE WING AND ATTACHED CHAPEL AT LAXTON HALL, NN17 3AU
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233941
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Service Wing and Attached Chapel at Laxton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- SERVICE WING AND ATTACHED CHAPEL AT LAXTON HALL, NN17 3AU
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233941
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Service Wing and Attached Chapel at Laxton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- SERVICE WING AND ATTACHED CHAPEL AT LAXTON HALL, 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:
- SERVICE WING AND ATTACHED CHAPEL AT LAXTON HALL, 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:
- SP 96002 97004
Details
SP 99 NE,
4/157
LAXTON,
LAXTON PARK,
Service wing and attached Chapel at Laxton Hall
(Former listed as Laxton Hall Blackfriars School)
23.05.67
G.V.
II
Service wing and orangery to country house now residential home and Roman
Catholic Chapel. c.1809 probably to designs by Humphry Repton carried out by
William Carter for George Freke Evans. Orangery reconstructed as a chapel
early/mid C20. Squared coursed limestone, limestone ashlar and weatherboarding
with Welsh slate roof. Irregular L-shape plan. 2 storeys. Garden front is an
irregular 7-window range of casements, those at ground floor are under shallow
stone arches and those at first floor are under stone lintels. The ground floor
windows correspond with the basement windows of Laxton Hall and attached steps
and balustrade (q.v.). Some windows are blind. Hipped roof with brick and ashlar
stacks at ridge. One window range, set back to far left, has tripartite sash
with a moulded stone surround and is linked by a narrow flat-roofed element to
the garden front of Laxton Hall and attached steps and balustrade (q.v.). Former
orangery, now a chapel, is attached at right angles to far right. Portico at end
of this range has 4, unfluted, Tuscan Columns, with entasis, and a flight of
steps. Only the basement walls of the orangery remain, the ground floor has been
reconstructed as a weatherboarded structure. Rear elevation of the service wing
has a 3-window range to the centre, 2 bays to the left set back and break
forward, with doorway to left, and 2 bays to right are stepped forward. Windows
are mainly casements, some with leaded liqhts. The two ranges which form the
L-shape plan are linked by a narrow flat-roofed element. INTERIOR: the range
immediately adjacent to Laxton Hall has plaster cornices and some C19
fireplaces. The range at right angles to this contained the kitchens. The
staircase has a plain iron balustrade by John Baker. The interior has been
remodelled during C20. Humphry Repton was dismissed in 1808, following a
dispute, William Carter probably carried out these works to his design.
(Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: p. 289; RCHM: An Inventory of
Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: pl. 12; Northamptonshire
Records Office; Freke Evens (Laxton) Collection and Architectural Drawings
Collection)
Listing NGR: SP9600297004
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 409537
- 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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