Building record 8010/1/5 - Laxton Park Gates

Gate lodge and gatehouse now 2 dwellings built circa 1824 extended late 20th century. Includes gate arch with iron gates. Identical lodge houses are linked to the left and right of the gates. Each house has a kitchen and pantry. The lodge house to the left has a 20th century extension.

{1} Gatehouse now 2 dwellings. C.1824 probably after designs of 1806 by Humphry Repton, extended late C20. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar facades. Slate roofs. Central gatearch with semi-circular head and keyblock. Cornice above with stepped attic. Square head pedestrian openings in flanking walls have moulded architraves and cornices above. Identical lodge houses are linked to left and right of gatearch by the flanking walls. Each house is a one-unit plan with a kitchen and pantry. 2-storey one-window range of sash windows with glazing bars set in moulded stone architraves. Triangular pediments over. Lateral ashlar stacks. Flanking walls, attached to the left and right, terminating with a square piers, each have C20 windows at ground floor. Behind the walls are the kitchen and pantry for each lodgehouse. The lodgehouse to the left has a late C20 extension to far left. Chamfered plinth throughout. The return walls of the lodgehouses, facing into the driveway, originally had a entral doorway with flanking sash windows and blank recessed panels above. The doorway and a window have now been interchanged. The rear elevation of each lodgehouse has a blank, arch-head, recessed panel. The gatearch has iron gates by John Parker of Knightsbridge. Interiors not inspected.

{3} Plan and elevation.

{5} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 4/148 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G11 (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.113-4 (unchecked) (Series). SNN77384.

<4> Pevsner N.; Cherry B., 1973, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.289 (unchecked) (Series). SNN1320.

<5> Photographs of buildings in Laxton (Photographs). SNN112600.

<6> Historic England, Undated, LAXTON HALL, LAXTON, BF061879 (Archive). SNN114576.

Record last edited

Jan 10 2023 3:59PM