Building record 1160/88/4 - Summerhouse Immediately East of Manfield Orthopaedic Hospital

Summerhouse at Manfield Orthopaedic Hospital built circa 1899-1902 to designs by Charles Dorman.

{1} Summerhouse. Circa 1899-1902 by Charles Dorman for James Manfield, a Northampton shoe manufacturer. Timber on dressed ironstone plinth and dressed ironstone rear wall. Stone tile hipped roof with projecting rafter ends under deep eaves. Small single storey rectangular building with Tuscan columns and strapwork motifs to risers under 3-light windows with glazing bars either side of narrower central doorway with small gable, with bargeboards, finial and panelled and glazed double doors approached by flight of stone steps. RH (SE) side similar but only 2 bays; rear has blind wall and NW side attached to garden wall. Interior not inspected.

{3} The summer house is still inexistence and retains wooden panelling on its interior. There has been some sub-division of the internal space, but this is reversible.

{4} Two photos dated 1990;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 14/1001 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1976, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), H14 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN1000.

<3> Ballinger J., 2001, Manfield Hospital, Kettering Road, Northampton, (unchecked) (Notes). SNN101340.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Northampton (Photographs). SNN114989.

<5> Historic England, Undated, MANFIELD ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL, NORTHAMPTON, BF100922 (Archive). SNN115561.

Record last edited

Oct 30 2023 12:24PM