Building record 939/2/2 - Harpole Hall

Country house. Early C19.

{1} Country house. Early C19. Painted brick, concealed roof, white brick internal stacks. Double-depth plan. 2-storey, 3-window range. Central double-leaf part-glazed doors with overlight and moulded rendered surround in porch with square corner piers and inner Greek Doric columns. 12-pane sash windows to ground and first floors with moulded rendered surrounds. Door and first floor centre windows have shallow straight hoods on console brackets. Chamfered plinth, storey band, moulded rendered cornice stone steps. Bays either side of centre break forward slightly. Interior: stone-paved hall, open-well staircase with carved tread ends, stick balusters and ramped and wreathed mahogany handrail. Drawing room has moulded plasterwork cornice and statuary marble chimneypiece. Dining room has plasterwork frieze and cornice and grey marble chimneypiece. Brick-vaulted cellars.

{3} Two undated photos;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 1/54 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F09 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> Photographs of buildings in Harpole (Photographs). SNN112523.

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Mar 20 2025 4:23PM