Caswell and attached outbuildings

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1371627
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:: Caswell and attached outbuildings
Statutory Address:: Caswell and attached outbuildings

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1371627
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: Caswell and attached outbuildings
Statutory Address 1:: Caswell and attached outbuildings

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:: Caswell and attached outbuildings

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

District:: West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Greens Norton
National Grid Reference:: SP 65132 50926

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14 March 2024 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards

SP65SE 3/61

GREENS NORTON Caswell and attached outbuildings

(Formerly listed as Caswell Farmhouse and attached outbuildings, previously listed as Caswell including outbuildings)

01/12/51

II

Former farmhouse, now part of research establishment. c.1840 with extensive C20 alterations. Coursed squared ironstone, hipped slate roof, brick ridge and lateral stacks. Two-storey, three-window central block with lower two-storey, four-window wings either side, rebuilt and enlarged C20. Central double-leaf part-glazed door with panelled reveals and shallow limestone porch of unfluted Doric columns supporting entablature with triglyphs to frieze and pediment. Tripartite sash windows above door and to ground floor left and right, 12-pane sashes to first floor left and right and to wings, except for tripartite sash to ground floor centre of right wing. All windows have flat-arched heads and keyblocks. Central bay of main block breaks forward and has low pedimental gable with string course to base and blank rectangular sunk panel in gable; plinth, storey band, chamfered quoins to angles and jambs of window, and deep overhanging eaves. The symmetrical composition is completed by single storey outbuilding wings, now converted to offices and extensively remodelled, with round-arched windows to right wing. That to left is joined to extensive, much altered range of former farm buildings, which largely enclosed former yard to rear.

Interior: house has some original stone chimneypieces and brick-lined cellar. One of 3 number of model farms built for the 4th Duke of Grafton 1839-44.

(Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, 1973, p.240; J. Steane, The Northamptonshire Landscape, 1974, p.240-1).

Listing NGR: SP6513250926

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Legacy System number:: 235080
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 240
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.