4, MEADOW LANE
4, MEADOW LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371281
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 4, MEADOW LANE
- Statutory Address:
- 4, MEADOW LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371281
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 4, MEADOW LANE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 4, MEADOW LANE
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:
- 4, MEADOW LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Houghton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 80351 59695
Details
LITTLE HOUGHTON MEADOW LANE SP8059 (East side) 11/151 No.4
GV II
Cottage, formerly summerhouse. Dated 1685, altered C19. Ironstone ashlar and coursed ironstone rubble, C20 plain-tile roof, brick end stack. 1-unit plan. 2 storeys and attic; 1-window range. Main front faces walled garden to rear is ashlar-faced and has central blocked door with eared and moulded stone surround. Large inscription panel above of red sandstone with moulded stone sill and bolection-moulded stone surround. Inscription, now worn, reads "A DEO SUNT REGES/CONSILIA PRODITORUM INANIA; DUM GEMIT AD BELGAS PERITURIS/ABSOLOM ARMIS/HANC STUDIO PACISQUE DEO/SACRAVIMUS ARCEM/PRID.IDUUM JULII MDCLXXV/M/TW". Upright keyed oval windows flank door, that to left blank. Inscription panel flanked by similar niches rendered inside; rendering to right niche incised with eared urn. Wave-moulded plinth, chamfered quoins and stone-coped gable. Present entrance to left at basement level. Elevation facing road has one 2-light casement window to basement (ground flor on road side) 1st and attic floors. Gable on this side rebuilt in red brick. The cottage was built as a summerhouse or gazebo to walled garden of the seat of the Wards, demolished 1777. The inscription refers to Dryden's poem 'Absolom and Achitophel' published in 1681. Absolom of the poem and inscription is the Duke of Hannouth. The initials are those of Thomas and Mary Ward.
Listing NGR: SP8035159695
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 235551
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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