Building record 679/2/1 - Bradden House

{1} Country house. Dated 1819 on rainwater heads. Late C19 alterations and additions. Ironstone ashlar with limestone dressings, slate roofs, stone end and ridge stacks with terracotta chimneypots. H-plan. 2-storey, 7-window range. Central part-glazed door in stone porch with Doric pillars, simple entablature, and crest above framed by volutes; approached by 2 moulded steps. Coupled 12-pane sash windows in moulded stone surrounds flank door. 12-pane sashes to first floor, those to 3-bay centre with moulded stone surrounds, those to cross wings with flat-arched heads. Plinth, storey band, pediments to wings and balustraded parapet with ball finials. Small square turret to middle of roof with ball finial. Left side elevation in early Georgian style is late C19 addition. Interior: largely remodelled late C19 but retaining some Regency features. Stone-flagged hall. Reeded early C19 doorcases.

{4} The existing building incorporates a late medieval structure.

{5} Old manor house taken down "few years hence" by Mr Ives, new residence on its site. Sketch of old house.

{6} Manor House with two cross wings, one at either end of the hall, erected by the hospitallers of St John Jerusalem and demolished in the 19th century.

{7} The house was L-shaped in 1740.

{8} Undated photo;

{9} Drawing of Bradden House, also engraving;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 12/55 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F08 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> Pevsner N.; Cherry B., 1973, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (unchecked) (Series). SNN1320.

<4> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.24/Site 2&5 (checked) (Series). SNN77382.

<5> Baker G., 1830, The History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire, p.36 (unchecked) (Book). SNN77328.

<6> Woodfield P., 1981, The Larger Medieval Houses of Northamptonshire, 16/157 (checked) (Article). SNN23550.

<7> 1740, Map of Bradden, (unchecked) (Map). SNN13579.

<8> Photographs of buildings in Bradden (Photographs). SNN111892.

<9> Dryden H.E.L., 1842-1895, Dryden Collection, DR/25/37/1,2 (Archive). SNN115.

Record last edited

Aug 7 2024 2:36PM