Grafton House
GRAFTON HOUSE, GAYTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1372333
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Grafton House
- Statutory Address:
- GRAFTON HOUSE, GAYTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1372333
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Grafton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRAFTON HOUSE, GAYTON 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:
- GRAFTON HOUSE, GAYTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Blisworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 72354 53348
Details
The following buildings shall be added to the list;
SP 7254 BLISWORTH GAYTON ROAD
10/10000 Grafton House
GV II
House. Circa early C19, altered in late C19. Dressed limestone. Hipped plain tile roof, the lower 2 courses slate, and partly slate at rear. Red brick axial stacks. PLAN: the original house is L-shaped on plan with principal room on either side of front entrance and wing to rear left; the single storey and attic flanking wing may be additions but the 2-storey block in the angle at the back is a later C19 addition. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Symmetrical 1:3:1 bay north east front. Ground floor 2 later C19 canted bays and stone pilastered and pedimented doorway at centre with fielded panel door and rectangular overlight with margin panes. First floor 2 tripartite 4:12:4 pane C19 sashes and central 4 pane sash, 2 late C19 gabled half-dormers with 9-pane sashes. Low flanking wings, set back slightly, with 4-pane sashes. Rear (SW): hipped wing on right with 12-pane sash; main roof carried down over late C19 addition in angle on left, with casement windows, and glazed doors with overlights. Flanking wing on right with hipped dormer. INTERIOR: only ground floor seen, some Georgian doors but mostly Victorian joinery and chimneypieces. NOTE: Said to have been a farmhouse on the Grafton Estate. It then became Blisworth Mill (qv) owner's house and John Westley is listed in Kelly's Directory 1898, as living at Grafton House. SOURCE: Kelly's Directory 1898.
Listing NGR: SP7235453348
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 361418
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kelly's Directory in Bedfordshire Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire, (1898)
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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