Great Addington House
GREAT ADDINGTON HOUSE, WOODFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286923
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Great Addington House
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT ADDINGTON HOUSE, WOODFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286923
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Great Addington House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT ADDINGTON HOUSE, WOODFORD 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:
- GREAT ADDINGTON HOUSE, WOODFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Addington
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 95835 75177
Details
GREAT ADDINGTON WOODFORD ROAD SP9575 14/15 Great Addington House GV II
Shown as Church Close on Ordnance Survey map. Rectory, now house. c.1670, altered 1870. Squared, coursed and regular coursed limestone with slate roof. Originally T-shape, now irregular U-shape plan. 2 storeys. Main front of 4-window range with end bays breaking forward as gabled cross wings. Centre 2 bays have 8-paned sash windows at first floor, under stone lintels with small gables over. Ground floor has plain C19 sash windows with gauged stone heads. Cross wings have C19 two-light stone mullion windows with transoms. Plank door with decorated hinges to left of centre is set in plain arch-head moulded stone surround. Ashlar gable parapets with finials and ashlar stacks at ridge and end. Fragment of reset carved stone above door and evidence of gauged stone heads to some C19 stone mullion windows. Rear elevation has C19 canted stone bay to far right and 2 C19 stone mullion windows, one in place of original door. Interior: originally cross passage with hall to right. Centre room, formerly the hall, has large open fireplace with bressumer. Ceiling has cross beams. Simple early C18 staircase with part splat balustrade. 2 windows in rear passage have stained glass escutcheons with arms of Peterborough, Bacon, Isham and Tarvers. Evidence of original trusses at first floor level. Room to left of entrance is of c.1870 remodelling. The house may originally have been a T-shape plan with centre range and right cross wing. A C19 wing of domestic offices to far right was demolished mid C20. (V.C.H.: Northamptonshire, Vol.3, p.155).
Listing NGR: SP9583575177
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 232314
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ryland, W, Adkins, D, Sejeantson, R, The Victoria History of the County of Northampton, (1930), 155
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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