Building record 4770/1/1 - Pomfret Lodge

House, formerly rectory. Early C19 with C18 origins. Rendered brick, slate roofs, rendered internal and ridge stacks.

{1} House, formerly rectory. Early C19 with C18 origins. Rendered brick, slate roofs, rendered internal and ridge stacks. Double-depth plan. Cottage orne style. 2-storey, 5-window range. Central double-leaf, part-glazed doors with overlight and 4-centred head in 2-storey gabled porch with ground floor open on 3 arches to front, the middle arch with 4-centred head flanked by arches with pointed arched heads, under single stepped hood mould. Central 1st floor porch window has 2 lights, 4-centred head and hood mould and is flanked by blind slits with cross slits above. Blind pointed arch to barge-boarded porch gable. Otherwise Tudor-style 2-light windows to ground and first floors, with timber tracery, cusped heads to lights, paired 8-pane sashes, straight heads and hood moulds. Limestone plinth. Rear range has exposed brickwork of red brick in English bond, 16-pane sashes and central porch. 2-storey wing to rear left. Interior: main ground floor rooms have late C18/early C19 marble chimneypieces. Open well staircase with slender alternating twisted and fluted column balusters, both on vases, carved tread ends, ramped and wreathed handrail and fluted column newels.

{3} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 12/68 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F10 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> Photographs of buildings in Easton Neston (Photographs). SNN111650.

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Sep 30 2020 9:11AM