Building record 2790/2/1 - Manor House

A Palladian style manor house built circa 1740 and extended in 1895.

{1} Manor house. c.1740 for Seventh Earl of Westmorland, extended 1895. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar facade. Collyweston slate roof. Double depth plan; Palladian style. 2 storeys with attic. Main front of 3 bays under large pediment defining the gable end of the range. Centre bay breaks forward slightly. Central 6-panel door, with glazed toplights, has moulded stone surround with cornice above. Flanking 6-paned sash windows with plain ashler surrounds. Window frame, to left of entrance, is 18 with some original glass. 3 blank panels and broken pediment above. Central, first floor, 6-paned sash window has moulded stone architrave and is held in the pediment. Flanking bays each have sash window to ground and first floor with broad unmoulded architraves, those on the ground floor have round heads enclosing blind tympana. All sash windows are 6-paned with the exception of the ground floor right which is a C19 two-paned sash window. Cills of all ground floor windows are linked by a ra sed band. Moulded cornice at head of first floor windows also defines main gable pediment. Central sash window to attic has segmental head. Pediment to centre bay, at apex of gable, is also defined by moulded cornice. Large ashlar stack at apex. Late C19, single-storey one-bay extension to right has no windows to this elevation. Elevation of extension, to right, has sash windows and door, with ashlar surrounds. Side and rear elevation of main range have cross casements under wood lintels and lat stone arches. Centre bay of rear elevation breaks forward slightly. Late C19 extension to rear. Interior: spine beams and large open fireplace in kitchen, now blocked. The Seventh Earl of Westmorland whose principal residence was Apethorpe Hall (q.v.) held the manor of Woodnewton in the mid C18. The Manor House was probably used as a dower house as there is only one principal bedroom off the main staircase.

{3} The Manor House of two storeys and attics with ashlar front elevation and coursed rubble side and rear elevations was built circa 1740 when the manor was held by the seventh Earl of Westmorland. The house is Palladian in inspiration, and it is significant that the seventh Earl was adding ranges in the Palladian manner to Apethorpe in the middle of the century. On the East is a single storey extension of circa 1895.

{4} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 19/202 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G12 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN41470.

<3> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1984, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.168 (unchecked) (Series). SNN77384.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Woodnewton (Photographs). SNN114311.

<5> Historic England, MANOR HOUSE, WOODNEWTON, BF084271 (Archive). SNN114757.

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Feb 20 2023 2:50PM