Steane Park
STEANE PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286523
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Steane Park
- Statutory Address:
- STEANE PARK
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03084/14
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286523
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Steane Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- STEANE PARK
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:
- STEANE PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Farthinghoe
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 55406 38983
Details
SP53NE FARTHINGHOE STEANE
6/96 Steane Park 04/02/69
- II
Country House. Section of larger house demolished c.1750. C16/17, altered C19. Squared coursed limestone, coursed rubble, ironstone dressings. Tiled roof, stone stacks. 2 storeys and attic. South front 7 bays, has 2 gables to left and one to right. Doorway in right bay has stone 4 centred arch and 9 panel door. Blocked doorway with similar arch third bay from left. Irregularly spaced stone mullioned windows of 2, 3 and 4 lights with square hoods. C19 stone mullioned windows in third bay from right on ground and first floor, and in left bay ground floor. Main entrance on East side, remodelled C19, has storey bay window and gabled stone porch of this date. Rear has 6 gables and stone mullioned and transomed windows, mostly renewed C19. North-West bay near porch added Clq. Interior not inspected, but said to have Clb stone fireplace in dining room with 4 centred arch and C18 staircase with turned balusters, elaborated with extra carving in the Cl9. Originally The Manor House of the Bray family. c.1590 it passed by marriage to Thomas Crewe, Speaker of the House of Commons, who remodelled the house. It is shown in a C17 painting in Durham Castle. c.1740-50 two thirds of the house was demolished. (A. Oswald, The Chapel at Steane Park; Country Life July 2nd, 1938, p.12).
Listing NGR: SP5540638983
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 233996
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in Country Life, (1938)
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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