Wadenhoe House
WADENHOE HOUSE, PILTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1265354
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wadenhoe House
- Statutory Address:
- WADENHOE HOUSE, PILTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1265354
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wadenhoe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WADENHOE HOUSE, PILTON 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:
- WADENHOE HOUSE, PILTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wadenhoe
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 01316 83550
Details
TL0183
9/244
WADENHOE
PILTON ROAD
(South side)
Wadenhoe House
GV II
Country house, now conference centre. Datestone WIM/1657, extended late C18 and
extended and remodelled c.1858 for Ward-Hunt family. Squared coursed limestone
with ashlar dressings and Collyweston and Welsh slate roofs. Originally half
H-shape plan now complex. Main front to garden is a C17 five-window range with
gabled cross-wings breaking forward to left and right. Centre 3 windows are
irregular sized casements, some with glazing bars, under wood lintels. First
floor window to left of centre is a C20 wooden oriel. Hood mould of C17 window
above right hand ground floor window. Blocked 2-light C17 stone mullion windows
to far left and right of ground floor centre bays. Left cross wing has C17
three-light stone mullion window to ground floor with early C19 triple sash
above and C20 casement to attic, both under wood lintels. Hood mould of C17
window in return wall. Right cross-wing rebuilt C19, has 3 single-light windows
at ground floor and two- and 3-light stone mullion windows to first floor and
attic. Pair of gabled roof dormers, ashlar gable parapets and ashlar stacks at
ridge. Datestone to centre of range. 2-window range attached to left of this
elevation remodelled c.1858 with large canted stone mullioned bay window to
right and arch-head French doors to left. Hipped roof behind openwork parapet
with ball finials. Entrance front to left is similar. Interior: c.1858 range has
staircase with barley twist balusters and archway in hall with heavily panelled
reveals. C17 range has some C18 cornices and early C19 secondary staircases with
stick balustrades. Original roof structure with collar trusses, The entrance
front is depicted as a late C18 facade on an early/mid C19 drawing by George
Clarke and was probably remodelled c.1858 rather than rebuilt.
Listing NGR: TL0131683550
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 425168
- 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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