Seawell Grounds Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings
SEAWELL GROUNDS FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371621
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Seawell Grounds Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings
- Statutory Address:
- SEAWELL GROUNDS FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371621
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Seawell Grounds Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- SEAWELL GROUNDS FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS
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:
- SEAWELL GROUNDS FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Blakesley
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 62880 52166
Details
BLAKESLEY SP65SW 2/29 Seawell Grounds Farmhouse and 01/12/51 attached outbuildings (Formerly listed as Seawell Farmhouse and farm buildings)
- II
Farmhouse. c.1840, altered in C20 renovation. Coursed squared ironstone, hipped slate roofs, stone ridge and internal stacks. 2-storey, 3-window central block with lower 2-storey, 2-window wings either side. Central double-leaf, part-glazed, door with panelled reveals and limestone porch with square columns supporting plain frieze and cornice. 12-pane sash windows to ground and first floors with flat-arched heads. Plinth, storey band and deep overhanging eaves. Porch widened and rebuilt C20 and right ground floor window of left wing has had sill dropped and made into garden door. Symmetrical composition completed by single-storey outbuilding wings, each with 4 blank round-headed arches with imposts. That to left housed cart-shed open to yard to rear, now garaging. That to right is joined to extensive, altered range of farm buildings on three sides of yard to rear. Interior has stone-flagged floors and some original stone chimneypieces. Square pillars of porch originally circular, unfluted Doric columns; changed in C20 alterations. One of a number of model farms built for the 4th Duke of Grafton 1839-44. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p,107; The Northamptonshire Landscape, J. Steane, 1974, p.240-1).
Listing NGR: SP6288052166
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 235047
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1961), 107
Steane, J, The Northamptonshire Landscape, (1974), 240-1
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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