Tansor Court and Attached Quadrant Walls and Gates
TANSOR COURT AND ATTACHED QUADRANT WALLS AND GATES, FOTHERINGHAY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371936
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Tansor Court and Attached Quadrant Walls and Gates
- Statutory Address:
- TANSOR COURT AND ATTACHED QUADRANT WALLS AND GATES, FOTHERINGHAY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371936
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Tansor Court and Attached Quadrant Walls and Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- TANSOR COURT AND ATTACHED QUADRANT WALLS AND GATES, FOTHERINGHAY ROAD
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:
- TANSOR COURT AND ATTACHED QUADRANT WALLS AND GATES, FOTHERINGHAY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tansor
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 05329 90996
Details
TLO9SE
6/136
TANSOR
FOTHERINGHAY ROAD
(East side)
Tansor Court and attached quadrant walls and gates
GV II
Rectory, now house. 1858/59 for Rev. H. Living by John Norton of London,
extended as datestone 1869 and early C20. Squared coursed limestone with
Collyweston slate roof. Irregular double-depth plan. 2 storeys. Entrance front
of 3 irregular bays. Large 5-light, Early-English-style, stone mullion staircase
window, to left, has gablet over. Small 2-light stone mullion window to ground
floor centre. Square, stone mullion bay window, to ground floor centre, has
castellated parapet. Bay to right is blank and has large lateral stack. Doorway
to left of centre has 2-centred arch head. Attached covered way of 3 bays has
Gothic style outer gateway with 4-centred arch head, and decorated spandrels.
Flanking gabled buttresses and gablet over with central coat of arms. Ashlar
gable parapets and ashlar lateral and ridge stacks. Iron gates attached to outer
gateway and double quadrant walls attached to either side of gateway forming
outer forecourt. 2-window range attached to left of entrance front is similar,
with stone mullion windows, and was originally the service wing. Single-storey
billiards room, attached to front left, is dated 1869 on return gable. All in
similar style. Datestone D.L. 1676 to rear left is reset. Elevation to right of
entrance front is of 2 bays with gable breaking forward to left. 2-storey,
5-light stone mullion, bay window with transoms to left and similar
single-storey canted bay window to right. Small Early English style window, with
gablet over, to first floor centre. Garden front, to rear of entrance front, is
of 4 bays with gables to left and right, that to left breaks forward. 2-storey
canted bay window, similar to others, to left. 2- and 3-light stone mullion
windows, with transoms, to centre and right. 2-light Early English style window,
with gablet over, to first floor left of centre, and circular turret to first
floor right of centre, with conical roof and stone mullion windows. Lean-to
porch to left of centre. Ashlar gable parapets and kneelers and ashlar stacks at
ridge and ends. 2 bays to right in similar style added early C20. Interior;
staircase with C17 style balustrade rises around an open well. Drawing room,
Study and principal bedrooms have the original Gothic Style fireplaces.
Principal rooms also have panelled dados. An earlier Rectory formerly stood in
the grounds to the east. Tansor Court ceased to be used as a Rectory in 1903.
Listing NGR: TL0532990996
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 232692
- 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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