Woodford House and Attached Cottages and Outbuildings
WOODFORD HOUSE AND ATTACHED COTTAGES AND OUTBUILDINGS, CRANFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266038
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Woodford House and Attached Cottages and Outbuildings
- Statutory Address:
- WOODFORD HOUSE AND ATTACHED COTTAGES AND OUTBUILDINGS, CRANFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266038
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Woodford House and Attached Cottages and Outbuildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOODFORD HOUSE AND ATTACHED COTTAGES AND OUTBUILDINGS, CRANFORD 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:
- WOODFORD HOUSE AND ATTACHED COTTAGES AND OUTBUILDINGS, CRANFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Woodford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 94247 76366
Details
SP97NW
1/162
WOODFORD
CRANFORD ROAD
Woodford House and attached cottages and outbuildings
(Formerly listed as Woodford House)
23/05/67
II
Country house. Probably mid C18, remodelled and extended 1813 (datestone) for Charles Arbuthnot MP, extended c.1900 for Plevens family. Squared coursed lias and limestone ashlar, with slate roof.
Double-depth plan. Two storeys with attic. Entrance front centre range of four windows. Central late C19 columned porch with glazed door. Late C19 sash windows in earlier openings with gauged stone heads. Raised string course between floors. Shallow hipped roof with roof dormers on returns. Wooden dentilled cornice and brick stacks at ridge. Datestone below eaves. Three-window range to right, set back from main front, was probably added early C19. French windows at ground floor and plain sash windows at first floor, all under gauged stone heads.Dentilled cornice and hipped roof. First floor windows to centre range and range to right have wooden shutters. Irregular five-window range set back to left of centre in similar style, with staircase windows between floors to right. The first floor of this range is a different build to the ground floor. Similar range is attached at right angles to left, with a three-storey tower with pyramid roof to right, and single-storey range terminating with a pyramid roof. Oculus in tower with four keyblocks has C20 clockface.
Rear elevation or garden front is a similar five-window range of sash windows with tall openings to ground floor. String course between floors. Late C19 polygonal conservatory to centre is formed with ashlar piers between sash window openings. c.1900 billiards room attached to right has polygonal end in similar style. Former stables attached to left of entrance front now form two cottages and outbuildings.
Interior: entrance hall has C18 style staircase with turned balusters, which probably dates from c.1900 remodelling. Similar secondary staircase to left. Duke's drawing room to far right of entrance has moulded plaster ceiling. Other rooms have moulded cornices. The Duke of Wellington was a frequent guest of the Arbuthnots and the three-bay extension to the north of the main front was his accommodation, including a drawing room and study. The Duke of Wellington likened the surrounding countryside to that of Waterloo and the Round House, Thrapston Road, (q.v.) commemorates the battle. Drawings at Northamptonshire Records Office show alterations proposed by W. Martyn Meer of 1899 and landscape proposals by W. Innes Stuckey of 1909, only partially carried out.
Listing NGR: SP9424776366
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 423168
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1961), 467
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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