Thorpe Castle House
THORPE CASTLE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1294127
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Thorpe Castle House
- Statutory Address:
- THORPE CASTLE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1294127
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Thorpe Castle House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THORPE CASTLE HOUSE
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:
- THORPE CASTLE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thorpe Achurch
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 02225 81402
Details
TL08SW
7/134
23/05/67
THORPE ACHURCH
THORPE WATERVILLE
Thorpe Castle House
(Formerly listed as Castle Farmhouse, now 2 cottages)
GV II
Manor house. Probably medieval origins as part of Thorpe Waterville Castle.
Mainly mid C17, restored C19 and C20. Squared coursed limestone with
Collyweston slate roof. Irregular T-shape plan. 2 storeys with attic. Entrance
front of 4 bays with later gabled cross wing breaking forward to right of
centre. Doorway to right of cross wing has 4-centred arch head with mouldings to
topside of lintel, probably reset. C20 door. C19 two- and 3-light stone mullion
windows, above door, and to first floor and attic. C20 two-light stone mullion
window to ground floor left of cross wing with single-light window above. C19
two-light stone mullion window with transom to first floor right. Return walls
of cross wing have single-light windows. Lateral stone stacks to left and right.
Ashlar gable parapets, cross wing has crow stepped gable. Elevation to right of
entrance front is a 2-window range of C20 stone mullion windows with gable to
left. Reset medieval lancet window to first floor left of gable. Rear elevation
has projecting wing to left, probably C19. Central gabled attic dormer has
lateral stack attached to right. C20 stone mullioned bay window to right. Ashlar
gable parapets and stone stacks at ridge and end. The house may incorporate some
remains of Thorpe Waterville Castle of which Castle Barn approximately 50 metres
north-east of Thorpe Castle House (q.v.) is the chief survival. Probably
converted to 2 farm cottages late C18. Interior not inspected but said to be
remodelled C20.
(Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.429; V.C.H.: Northamptonshire, Vol.3,
p.135).
Listing NGR: TL0222581402
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 232857
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1961), 429
Ryland, W, Adkins, D, Sejeantson, R, The Victoria History of the County of Northampton, (1930), 135
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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