Listed Building: Walls, gatepier and attached banqueting house and balustrade approx 80m east of Drayton House (1040298)

Walls, gatepier, banqueting house and attached balustrade. Late C17 for second Earl of Peterborough with later alterations. Squared coursed limestone walls and limestone ashlar gatepier. Squared coursed limestone banqueting house with ashlar facades and lead roof. Wall has gatepier attached to north and banqueting house attached to south. Banqueting house is one-unit, single-storey, one-window range. Tall fixed window with glazing bars and moulded stone architraves. Rusticated quoins, moulded cornice and plain ashlar parapet; roof not visible. Elevation to right has central doorway with moulded stone architraves and arms of second Earl of Peterborough above. 5 bays of ashlar balustrade attached to north of Banqueting House. 3 closed lead urns, probably by Van Nost are mounted on balustrade. Banqueting House forms pair with walls, gatepiers, gates and screens south and east of Drayton House; and Banqueting House, balustrade, statue and cistern (q.v.). (Gardens included in HBMCE Register of Parks and Gardens at grade I. Cornforth, J., 20th May, 1965, p.1216; Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.189; Jackson-Stops G, Drayton House, 1978).

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