Listed Building: Laxton Park Gates (1233909)

Gatehouse now 2 dwellings. C.1824 probably after designs of 1806 by Humphrey Repton, extended late C20. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar facades. Slate roofs. Central gatearch with semi-circular head and keyblock. Cornice above with stepped attic. Square head pedestrian openings in flanking walls have moulded architraves and cornices above. Identical lodge houses are linked to left and right of gatearch by the flanking walls. Each house is a one-unit plan with a kitchen and pantry. 2-storey, one-window range of sash windows with glazing bars set in moulded stone architraves. Triangular pediments over. Lateral ashlar stacks. Flanking walls, attached to the left and right, terminating with a square piers, each have C20 windows at ground floor. Behind the walls are the kitchen and pantry for each lodgehouse. The lodgehouse to the left has a late C20 extension to far left. Chamfered plinth throughout. The return walls of the lodgehouses, facing into the driveway, originally had a central doorway with flanking sash windows and blank recessed panels above. The doorway and a window have now been interchanged. The rear elevation of each lodgehouse has a blank, arch-head, recessed panel. The gatearch has iron gates by John Parker of Knightsbridge. Interiors not inspected. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: p289; RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p114)

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