FLATS 1, 2, 3, PORCH HOUSE, BELL TOWER, CLOISTERS, SOUTH WING, PEDIMENT, CORNER HOUSE AND TOWER HOUSE AT DINGLEY HALL

FLATS 1, 2, 3, PORCH HOUSE, BELL TOWER, CLOISTERS, SOUTH WING, PEDIMENT, CORNER HOUSE AND TOWER HOUSE AT DINGLEY HALL, HARBOROUGH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1294135
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: FLATS 1, 2, 3, PORCH HOUSE, BELL TOWER, CLOISTERS, SOUTH WING, PEDIMENT, CORNER HOUSE AND TOWER HOUSE AT DINGLEY HALL
Statutory Address:: FLATS 1, 2, 3, PORCH HOUSE, BELL TOWER, CLOISTERS, SOUTH WING, PEDIMENT, CORNER HOUSE AND TOWER HOUSE AT DINGLEY HALL, HARBOROUGH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1294135
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: FLATS 1, 2, 3, PORCH HOUSE, BELL TOWER, CLOISTERS, SOUTH WING, PEDIMENT, CORNER HOUSE AND TOWER HOUSE AT DINGLEY HALL
Statutory Address 1:: FLATS 1, 2, 3, PORCH HOUSE, BELL TOWER, CLOISTERS, SOUTH WING, PEDIMENT, CORNER HOUSE AND TOWER HOUSE AT DINGLEY HALL, HARBOROUGH ROAD

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:: FLATS 1, 2, 3, PORCH HOUSE, BELL TOWER, CLOISTERS, SOUTH WING, PEDIMENT, CORNER HOUSE AND TOWER HOUSE AT DINGLEY HALL, HARBOROUGH ROAD

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

District:: North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Dingley
National Grid Reference:: SP 77103 87782

Details

DINGLEY HARBOROUGH ROAD SP78NE (North side) 3/40 Flats 1,2,3, Porch House, Bell 25/10/51 Tower, Cloisters, South Wing, Pediment, Corner House and Tower House at Dingley Hall (Formerly listed as Dingley Hall) - I Country house, now 10 dwellings. Originally Pre-Reformation preceptory of the knights Hospitalers of St. John but mainly 1558-60 for Edward Griffin and 1670's and 1680's for Sir Edmund Griffin; the latter work is probably by Hugh May or Captain W. Winde. Limestone, lias and ironstone ashlar with Swithland slate roof. Originally courtyard plan now irregular U-shape with projecting wings. Late C17 main front of 8-window range of C20 casements with glazing bars in original openings with moulded stone architraves. String course between floors. Dentilled wood cornice and 5 roof dormers with wood pediments have C20 roof windows between. Hipped roof with ashlar stacks, with moulded cornices, at ridge and eaves. Late C17 projecting wing to left is similar of 3-window range with rusticated quoins. Fine mid C16 porch relocated C19 on end of wing has pairs of fluted Corinthian columns at ground floor flanking 4-centred arch head opening with frieze above. C20 first floor casement in original opening has moulded stone surround with pediment over and ball finials at base and apex. Square panels with rosettes around window and flanking shafts terminating as bulbous pinnacles. Central moulded flourish with volutes and shell. Return walls of porch are similar. Mid C16 wing projects to right of main front and is the rear of the gatehouse. 4-window range of 3-light stone mullion windows, 3 with arch-head lights and one with transom. 2 to left are flanked by pilasters rising from 4-bay ground floor open arcade, of arches with 4-centred heads. Range to right of arcade has 2 C20 doors also with 4-centred arched heads and two 2-light stone mullion windows with arch-head lights. Cornices between floors and ashlar parapet with elongated half-decagons with concave sides and shell and armorial decoration. C20 mansard extension to roof. Octagonal turret to far right has similar parapet with rounded merlons. Late C17 garden front to right of main front of 7-window range of C20 casements with glazing bars in original openings with moulded stone surrounds. Centre 3 bays break forward with pediment over with dentilled wood cornice. Central door opening has C20 casement with moulded stone surround and segmental pediment over, window above has wide moulded stone surround and bracketed cornice. String course between floors and rusticated quoins at corners. Hipped roof with 3 roof dormers and ashlar stacks at ridge. Mid C17 limestone ashlar gatehouse attached to left was originally main entrance to courtyard. Double gates under 4-centred arch head with decorated spandrels flanked by pilasters with corbels supporting diagonal pilasters to first floor. 6-light stone-mullion and transom window to first floor with pediment over. Cornices between floors, and parapets with 3 bulbous finials. Flanking octagonal turrets have parapets with semi-circular merlons. Mid C17 one- and 2-window ranges to left and right of gatehouse are similar with plain parapet and merlons. Inscription around gate arch is part Latin relating to King Philip of Spain. Late C17 elevation to right of garden front of 2-window range with canted projection. Elevation to left of main front has C20 casements. Rear elevation restored C20 has mid C17 turret to right with 2- and 3-light stone mullion windows with arch-head lights and a castellated parapet. Interiors: remodelled late C20, some spiral stairs remain in turrets. House occupied by Griffin family until late C18, then by Hungerforo family. Viscounts Downe, who probably relocated the main porch, and then by Admiral, Earl Beatty. Buildings of England, p.185. Country Life: Feb. 14, 1903, p.208 by J.A. Gotch; April 16, 1921, p.462; April 23, 1921 p.494).

Listing NGR: SP7710387782

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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1961), 185
'Country Life' in 16 April, (1921), 462
'Country Life' in 14 February, (1903), 208
'Country Life' in 23 April, (1921), 494

Legal

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