Stable Block at Delapre Abbey

STABLE BLOCK AT DELAPRE ABBEY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1372130
Date first listed:
09-Dec-1968
List Entry Name:
Stable Block at Delapre Abbey
Statutory Address:
STABLE BLOCK AT DELAPRE ABBEY
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1372130
Date first listed:
09-Dec-1968
List Entry Name:
Stable Block at Delapre Abbey
Statutory Address 1:
STABLE BLOCK AT DELAPRE ABBEY

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
STABLE BLOCK AT DELAPRE ABBEY

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

District:
West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Far Cotton and Delapre
National Grid Reference:
SP 75954 59118

Details

Stable block at 1. 5327 9.12.68 Delapre Abbey SP 7559 7/139 II GV

2. C18, two storeys, dressed iron-stone, string below 1st floor windows, frieze and cornice with parapet, hipped slate roof with lead ridges. Central cupola with clock under segmental pediment, engaged columns over supporting entablature broken forward over columns, rectangular openings to bell chamber, and leaded dome crowned with ball finial and tall scroll pattern weather vane. The centre part has 3 widely spaced bays with arched centre opening in rusticated surround with key block, filled by modern window, and semi-circular 3-light window over. Flanking bays have sashes 4 panes wide, those on ground floor in rusticated surrounds, upper windows in recessed surrounds. The central block is flanked by similar lower wings each of 3 bays.

Delapre Abbey with its Stable block, Billiard Room, Garden Wall and Gateway, Game Larder, Coach-House and Park House form a group.

Listing NGR: SP7595459118

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Legacy System number:
231855
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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