Gardener's Cottage at Apethorpe Palace
GARDENER'S COTTAGE AT APETHORPE PALACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271464
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Gardener's Cottage at Apethorpe Palace
- Statutory Address:
- GARDENER'S COTTAGE AT APETHORPE PALACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271464
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Gardener's Cottage at Apethorpe Palace
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARDENER'S COTTAGE AT APETHORPE PALACE
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:
- GARDENER'S COTTAGE AT APETHORPE PALACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Apethorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 02257 95229
Details
This list entry was subject to a minor amendment on 03/02/2015.
APETHORPE
TL0295 APETHORPE PARK
1745/18/10006 Gardener's Cottage at Apethorpe Palace
25-JAN-01
GV II
Cottage. c.1905. By Sir Reginald Blomfield for Lord Brassey. MATERIALS. Coursed Edith Weston stone with stone dressings and Collyweston slate roof with coped gables and finials and moulded stone stacks. Vernacular Revival style with stone mullioned windows (mostly with lead casements) and hoodmoulds. PLAN. Single depth 4-unit plan with staircase to centre left. Single storey and attic. 2-storey porch facing with basket-arched entrance leading to porch with settle either side and part-glazed door. 2 2-light windows to sides of porch. 3-light window over. Rest of front of cottage has 3-light window to left and 2 2-light windows to right. A 5-light window on each floor on both gable ends. 3- and 4-light wood casements to rear under wood lintels with a twin-gabled dormer and a single-storey wing. INTERIOR. Stick baluster staircase. 2-panel doors. Cast-iron fireplaces in bedrooms.
This Gardener's Cottage forms a significant group with the Walled Gardens (qv), and the other items surrounding the house at Apethorpe.
The gardens at Apethorpe are included in the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade II.
Listing NGR: TL0225795229
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 487537
- 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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