FINEDON HALL

FINEDON HALL, MACKWORTH DRIVE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1293682
Date first listed:: 09-Jun-1970
List Entry Name:: FINEDON HALL
Statutory Address:: FINEDON HALL, MACKWORTH DRIVE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1293682
Date first listed:: 09-Jun-1970
Date of most recent amendment:: 12-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: FINEDON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: FINEDON HALL, MACKWORTH DRIVE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FINEDON HALL, MACKWORTH DRIVE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Finedon
National Grid Reference:: SP 91130 71917

Details

FINEDON MACKWORTH DRIVE SP9171 (South side) 7/35 Finedon Hall 09/06/70 (Formerly listed as Finedon Hall, Station Road)

GV II

Country house. Probably C17 and C18, datestones 18S5, 1851, 1856 and l859 record existing alterations, probably by E.F. Law, for William Mackworth-Dolben. Ironstone ashlar with limestone dressings and slate roof. H-plan, Tudor-Gothic style. Entrance front is 2 storeys with attic. Centre of 5-window range with flanking gables breaking forward. Central porch has panelled door with 4-centred moulded stone head with decorated and inscribed spandrels. Circular turret attached to left of porch forms part of 10-light stone-mullion window with transom, havinq moulded stone panels and quatrefoil parapet above. Ground and first floor windows have C18 plain stone architraves with keyblocks and those at first floor have C19 4-light stone-mullion windows with transoms, inserted into the earlier surround. Centre bay breaks forward with quatrefoil parapet at eaves level and gargoyles at corners, 3 attic windows have Tudor style gables with 3-light stone-mullion windows with shields and trefoil above. Projecting gable to left: has 2-window range similar to centre range. Projecting gable to right has large C19 22-light, square stone-mullion bay window. Return wall to left is similar, of one-window range. Rusticated ashlar quoins to all corners and plain castellated parapets with ashlar copings. Ashlar stacks at ridge and end. Inscription to left gable "Gwell Angau"; continuation in right gable "Na Vywilydd" is missing. Various heraldic shields. Garden front to left of entrance front of 7-window range. Door openings to left and right of centre have moulded stone surrounds, that to left has segmental pediment. 2-storey canted stone bay windows to centre and left of range have quatrefoil parapets. Similar single-storey square stone bay to far left. Windows have stone mullions some with transoms and C18 plain stone architraves. 2- and 3-light attic windows set in Tudor style gables, some now missing. Remains of various inscriptions and carved heads. Elevation to right of main front is plain in similar style with attached wall and ashlar gatepier. Rear elevation has projecting gable to left and twin gables to right. Centre 3-window range, one blocked, with C18 plain stone surrounds with keyblocks, Gable to right has tall, 6-light stone-mullion staircase window with transom. Forms part of a group of buildings including The Museum Tower, Bell Tower, Old Chapel and attached wall (q.v.) (Buildings of England: Northamptonshir, p.210; Finedon Otherwise Thingdon by J.C.H. Bailey, p.81; Country Life July 13th, 1901, p.148).

Listing NGR: SP9113071917

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 233687
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Bailey, J L H , Finedon Otherwise Thingdon81
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1961), 210
'Country Life' in 13 July, (1901), 148

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.