The Old Vicarage
THE OLD VICARAGE, MAIN STREET, NN17 3AT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276316
- Date first listed:
- 31-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, MAIN STREET, NN17 3AT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276316
- Date first listed:
- 31-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, MAIN STREET, NN17 3AT
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:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, MAIN STREET, NN17 3AT
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 94955 96061
Details
SP 99 NW,
3/163
LAXTON,
MAIN STREET (South side),
The Old Vicarage
II
Vicarage now house. Date stone E/1806 by Humphry Repton and John Addey Repton
for George Freke Evens, probably extended 1874. Squared coursed limestone with
ashlar dressing and ashlar porch. Welsh slate and lead roofs. Double-depth plan.
2 storeys with attic. Entrance front has a pair of flush gables with a central
gabled porch breaking forward. 3-window range of unhorned sash windows with
glazing bars, set in chamfered ashlar surrounds, with keystones. First floor
windows reduce in height. Porch has outer archway with 4-centred arch-head.
Inner, part-glazed, door has semi-circular fanlight with glazing bars. Angle
buttresses at corners of porch, terminating as short pinnacles. Flat roof, plain
parapet, and glazed rooflight set back between gables. Gables have ashlar
parapets, with tall finials. Internal ashlar stack with 4 diagonal flues. Late
C19, 2-window range attached to right, was service range, with leaded casements
under shallow stone arches. C19 part-glazed door to left. Elevation to left of
entrance front is of 2-window range with gable to left. 5-light, canted, stone
mullion bay window, to left, with 3-light stone mullion window above and similar
2-light window to attic; all have arch head lights. Similar 2-light windows to
right. Gable has stepped ashlar parapets with tall finial at eaves and apex.
Date stone in apex of gable. Elevation to left is a 3-window range, of sash
windows, similar to the entrance front. Central C20 glazed door has chamfered
ashlar surround. Interior; ground floor is on 2 levels accessible of central
stair, with early C19 stick balustrades. Early C19 door surrounds with corner
roundels and panelled window reveals. Some early C19 fireplaces to first floor
rooms. Correspondence between Free Evans of Laxton Hall (q.v.) and Repton
indicates Freke Evans dissatisfaction with the construction of this building.
(RCHH: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p115;
Northamptonshire Records Office; Free Evans (Laxton) Collections)
Listing NGR: SP9495596061
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 409543
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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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