Listed Building: The Gate House (1041077)

House. c.1920-1925, by C.H. Biddulph-Pinchard. Coursed limestone rubble with ironstone dressings, parts timber-framed with brick infill, plain tile roofs, stone ridge stacks. Courtyard plan. C17 in style, incorporating old materials. 2 storeys. Entrance front has central carriage arch with moulded timber surround and Tudor-arched head in timber framed central bay with oriel window above entrance on curved brackets. Left wing is timber framed and has 3-light casement window to first floor centre . d mullion and transom window to left, similar 3-light window to right, all with leaded lights. Wing to right has central projecting gabled bay with 5-light stone mullion and transom windows to ground and first floors with hood moulds flanked by similar 3-light windows to ground floor. Range to rear has similar stone mullion windows. Interior has dog-leg and open-well staircases with splat balusters and newel posts with ball finials, mostly re-used material and C17; a small room fielded panelling, and timber bolection-moulded fireplace, both of late C17 or early C18 date; re-used C17 pegged panelling in drawing room which has concealed bookcase door and bedroom with plaster barrel vaulted ceiling. The house was built in at least 2 stages using materials from the old stone barns and brewhouse previously on the site. A plan of the entrance and right ranges is illustrated in 'The Principles of Architectural Composition', Howard Robertson, 1924, fig.132, p.120 when . own as Little Garth. The remaining ranges were completed before 1925. That to left is known as the nursery wing. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.422; n.a., The Smaller House, Architectural Press: 1924, pp57-9)

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