West Pavilion and attached quadrant colonnade
West Pavilion and attached quadrant colonnade, Stoke Park
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1371608
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- West Pavilion and attached quadrant colonnade
- Statutory Address:
- West Pavilion and attached quadrant colonnade, Stoke Park
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1371608
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- West Pavilion and attached quadrant colonnade
- Statutory Address 1:
- West Pavilion and attached quadrant colonnade, Stoke Park
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:
- West Pavilion and attached quadrant colonnade, Stoke Park
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shutlanger
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 74066 48726
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 01/06/2020
SP 74 NW
7/148
SHUTLANGER
STOKE PARK
West Pavilion and attached quadrant colonnade
(formerly listed as Stoke Park)
01/12/51
GV
II*
Pavilion. c.1629-1635 for Sir Francis Crane, altered late C18, restored 1970. Brick carcase, faced with limestone and ironstone ashlar, hipped slate roof, stone internal stack. Single storey, attic and basement; three-window range.
Basement is faced with ironstone and has central door with keyblocked moulded limestone surround, flanked by square windows with similar surrounds. Basement forms plinth with moulded limestone band at ground floor level and supports giant order of Ionic pilasters defining bays. Ironstone pilasters with limestone bases and capitals supporting entablature of ironstone with contrasting pulvinated frieze and brown-painted moulded wood eaves. Central bay breaks forward slightly, its pilasters supplemented by portions of 'shadow' pilasters either side and has pediment. Late C18 central Venetian window with moulded limestone head. Flanked by fifteen-pane sash windows with moulded ironstone surrounds, plain friezes and moulded cornices; sills lowered late C18. Blind attic windows have moulded stone surrounds topped by flat-arched heads of limestone with console keyblocks, Pilasters and window dressings contrast with limestone-faced walling.
Two-storey porch wing to right side facing former forecourt of house has similar pilasters to angles and open ground floor with minor order of Ionic columns supporting moulded limestone lintel. Porches to front and rear with similar columns. Tall round-arched windows to first floor with moulded stone surrounds, limestone imposts and console keyblocks, blind to front and rear. Pediments to front and side bays shown in Vitruvius Britannicus replaced late C18 by hipped roof. Quadrant colonnade begins to rear of porch wing; now ruinous.
Interior: single double-height rood formerly library, converted into ballroom late C18. Coved plaster ceiling, fan motif above Venetian window. Room above porch is open to ballroom and forms gallery. Basement has wide shallow brick vault, niches, and entrance to brick-vaulted tunnel running between pavilions below colonnades. Formed part of a tripartite composition with house destroyed by fire in 1886.
Listing NGR: SP7406648726
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 234965
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 415-6
Vitruvius Britannicus in Vitruvius Britannicus, Vol. 3, (1725)
Country Life in 23 July, (1953)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 30 Northamptonshire,
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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