Listed Building: Shutlanger Grove Farmhouse and attached walls, gates and gatepiers and ha-ha (1040941)

Farmhouse. C.1840. Red brick in Flemish bond with limestone dressings, hipped slate roofs, yellow brick internal stacks. Double-depth plan. 2-storey, 3-window range. Central double-leaf part-glazed doors, approached by 2 stone steps, in stone porch with unfluted Doric columns, supporting entablature with triglyths to frieze, deep moulded cornice and blocking cornice. 12-pane sash windows with moulded stone surrounds. Plinth, stone quoins, storey band and band below deep projecting eaves. Lower symmetrical 2-storey, 2-window wings, set-back either side with similar windows, storey band and quoins. Single-storey 4-bay wings, further set-back complete tripartite composition with blind depressed-arched arcades with imposts; stone plinth and quoins. Arches to right of main block frame 2-light casement windows to alternate bays, with wood lintels. Terminal single-storey 1-window pavilions with pyramidal roofs, square blind windows with stone sills and flat-arched heads with keyblocks; quoins. Right terminal building formerly joined to farm buildings surrounding yard to rear. Left single-storey wing open to yard on 3 timber posts with wood lintels for cart standings. Limestone walls with limestone gatepiers and terminal piers and cast-iron gates extend from ends of single-storey wings to ha-ha dividing garden from field. Interior: stone-paved staircase hall with steeply ramped handrail and stick balusters. Grey veined marble chimneypiece in drawing room. Stone cellar. With farm buildings (q.v.) one of a number of model farms built for the Duke of Grafton. (Grafton Papers deposited in Northamptonshire Record Office; J. Steane: The Northamptonshire Landscape 1974, p240-1)

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