Avenue Lodges and Attached Screen Forming Principal Entrance to Castle Ashby Park
AVENUE LODGES AND ATTACHED SCREEN FORMING PRINCIPAL ENTRANCE TO CASTLE ASHBY PARK, NORTHAMPTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293715
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Avenue Lodges and Attached Screen Forming Principal Entrance to Castle Ashby Park
- Statutory Address:
- AVENUE LODGES AND ATTACHED SCREEN FORMING PRINCIPAL ENTRANCE TO CASTLE ASHBY PARK, NORTHAMPTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293715
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jun-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Avenue Lodges and Attached Screen Forming Principal Entrance to Castle Ashby Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- AVENUE LODGES AND ATTACHED SCREEN FORMING PRINCIPAL ENTRANCE TO CASTLE ASHBY PARK, NORTHAMPTON ROAD
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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:
- AVENUE LODGES AND ATTACHED SCREEN FORMING PRINCIPAL ENTRANCE TO CASTLE ASHBY PARK, NORTHAMPTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Yardley Hastings
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 85526 57256
Details
YARDLEY HASTINGS NORTHAMPTON ROAD SP85NE (North side) 6/186 Avenue Lodges and attached 16/06/72 screen forming principal entrance to Castle Ashby park (Formerly listed as Entrance to Park and Avenue Lodges at Castle Ashby)
GV II
Lodges and entrance screen. 1868 by E.W. Godwin. Coursed squared limestone with limestone dressings, plain-tile roofs and stone ridge stacks to lodges. L plans. 2-storey, 2-window ranges. Lodges form symmetrical composition either end of entrance screen with a cross-wing innermost. Gable ends of cross wings have shallow 2-storey oriel windows with leaded stone mullion and transom windows to front and 1-light windows with transoms to sides. Wings either side have 5-light leaded stone mullion window to ground floor and tall gabled dormer window above with leaded stone cross windows. Splayed plinths and stone-coped gables with kneelers and finials. Entrances to inner sides within screen with stone lintels and plank doors and canted bay window to one side next to screen. Gate-screen has central triumphal arch in French Renaissance style. Round-headed archway with keyblock and carved spandrels, flanked by plain pilasters with Renaissance composed Capitals. Frieze with Compton crests, steep hipped stone roof with elaborate cartouche of arms framed by pilastered and gabled dormer. Finials to roof and dormer. Double cast-iron gates. Screen flanking gateway has balustrades punctuated by tall piers banded with ironstone. The Avenue Lodge and screen stand at the principal entrance to the park of Castle Ashby and the avenue over one and a half miles long aligned on the entrance front. They form part of the extensive improvements made by the 3rd Marquis of Northampton. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: 1973, p145)
Listing NGR: SP8552657256
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 235586
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 145
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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