STABLE BLOCK APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES EAST OF LAXTON HALL

STABLE BLOCK APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES EAST OF LAXTON HALL, NN17 3AU

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1233942
Date first listed:: 23-May-1967
List Entry Name:: STABLE BLOCK APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES EAST OF LAXTON HALL
Statutory Address:: STABLE BLOCK APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES EAST OF LAXTON HALL, NN17 3AU

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1233942
Date first listed:: 23-May-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: STABLE BLOCK APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES EAST OF LAXTON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: STABLE BLOCK APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES EAST OF LAXTON HALL, NN17 3AU

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:: STABLE BLOCK APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES EAST OF 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 96059 97019

Details

SP 99 NE, 4/158 LAXTON, LAXTON PARK, Stable block approx. 100m E of Laxton Hall

(Formerly listed as Stable block at Laxton Hall)

23.05.67

G.V.

II

Stables now dwelling and outbuildings. c.1807 by Humphry Repton for George Freke Evans, modified C20. Squared coursed limestone and limestone ashlar with Welsh slate roofs. Courtyard plan. Main front is ashlar of 7 bays. Tuscan style with central bay breaking forward having a semi-circular carriage arch with keystone. The underside of the arch has a groined vault. Cornice above archway, with stepped block parapet. Flanking bays are blind semi-circular arcades with keystone and continuous platband at the springing. The end bays break forward, with a triangular pediment over. Chamfered plinth. Overhanging eaves with wooden modillions. Shallow gabled roof, with ashlar ridge stacks to left and right. Central octagonal turret surmounted by a cupola with 8 wooden columns. Clock face on turret and bell in cupola. C20, single-storey, extension to far left. Elevations to left and right of main front are blank with casement openings to far left and right respectively. Rear elevation is similar to side elevations. Courtyard elevation opposite entrance has centre 3 bays of 2 storeys. 3 openings at ground floor, have semi-circular heads with keystones, glazed tympana and recessed doorways. Sash windows, with glazing bars, to first floor, under stone lintel with keystones. Raised band between floors and triangular pediment over. The flanking 2 bays are single-storey and were originally loose boxes. Elevation to left of entrance is 2 storeys, 4 bays with a 3-window range of tall sash windows, under stone lintels, with keystones. Doorway to right. Central pitch hole at first floor. Elevation to right of entrance is single-storey with a similar arrangement of openings. Both ranges were originally stables. Elevation to rear of main front is 2 storeys with 3 bays of segmental arch-head openings to either side of the central carriage arch. They were originally coach houses and now have C20 glazed infill panels. Sash windows at first floor similar to these in the other ranges. Interior not inspected, modified C20.

(Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: p. 289; RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: pl. 13; Northamptonshire Records Office; Freke Evans (Laxton) Collection end Architectural Drawings Collections)

Listing NGR: SP9605997019

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Legacy System number:: 409538
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.