Cheesemans Lodge
CHEESEMANS LODGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371989
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Cheesemans Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- CHEESEMANS LODGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371989
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Cheesemans Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHEESEMANS LODGE
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:
- CHEESEMANS LODGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Apethorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 01962 94506
Details
APETHORPE TL09SW 8/1 Cheesemans Lodge - II Park Keepers Lodge. Mid C17, enlarged as datestone 1864. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar dressings and stone slate roof. Originally 2- or 3-unit plan. 2 storeys. Main front is a 3-window range. C17 two-storey, 5-light, ovolo moulded stone mullion windows, to centre and right. Each has gablets over with ashlar parapets and kneelers. Plank door, between windows, has C17 moulded stone surround with 4-centred arch-head. Bay to left is c.1864 and has 4-light stone mullion windows, with gablet over, similar to C17 range. Ashlar gable parapets and ashlar ridge and end stacks. Right gable has a C17 four-light stone mullion window, probably reset in place of a bay window. Extension to rear is c.1864. Interior: C19 staircase has reset C17 turned balusters and square newels. Room to right of entrance has a C17 fireplace with 4-centred arch-head and moulded spire beams with urn stops. Room to left of entrance has early C19 fireplace, fitted into original open fireplace, and chamfered spine beam. Apethorpe Park was created in 1543 and enlarged in 1620; it was used by James I. By CIB it had become grazing and arable land. (RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p16)
Listing NGR: TL0196294506
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 233007
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire, (1984)
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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