Tansor House
TANSOR HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293476
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Tansor House
- Statutory Address:
- TANSOR HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293476
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Tansor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TANSOR HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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:
- TANSOR HOUSE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tansor
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 05517 90850
Details
TL09SE
6/l39
23/05/67
TANSOR
MAIN STREET
(North side)
Tansor House
GV II
House. Probably C17 with datestone R/HS/1721. Altered early and mid C19. Squared
coursed limestone with ashlar dressings and Collyweston slate roof. Originally
probably 2-unit plan, now L-shape. 2 storeys with attic. Main front is a
3-window range. Flanking 2-storey canted bay windows with unhorned sashes and
glazing bars. Central sash window at first floor, under a stone lintel. Central
doorway, now blocked, has moulded stone surround with cornice. Chamfered plinth,
raised band between storeys and moulded cornice. Pair of hipped roof dormers.
Ashlar gable parapets and kneelers and truncated ashlar stacks at ends. Right
gable has oval datestone in apex. Rear wing, to right, is probably of C17 origin
and has 2 leaded casements at first floor, under wood lintels and C19 tripartite
sash window, also under wood lintel, to ground floor. C20 door and porch to
left. Pair of roof dormers with leaded casements have some early glass.
Interior: kitchen in rear wing has large open fireplace with bressumer. Mid C19
staircase said to retain C18 turned balusters.
(RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: pl50)
Listing NGR: TL0551790850
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 232695
- 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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