Building record 3034/0/3 - The Old Vicarage

Designed in 1806 by Humphry Repton. Two-storey house with attics. It has a Welsh-slate roof and a datestone reading 'E 1806'. A wing on the west may be a addition of 1874.

{1} Vicarage now house. Datestone E/1806 by Humphrey Repton and John Addey Repton for George Freke Evans, probably extended 1874. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar dressing and ashlar porch. Welsh slate and lead roofs. Double depth plan. 2 storeys with attic. Entrance front has a pair of flush gables with a central gabled porch breaking forward. 3-window range of unhorned sash windows with glazing bars, set in chamfered ashlar surrounds, with keyblocks. First floor windows reduce in height. Porc has outer archway with 4-centred arch-head. Inner, part-glazed, door has semi-circular fanlight with glazing bars. Angle buttresses at corners of porch, terminating as short pinnacles. Flat roof, plain parapet, and glazed rooflight set back between gables. Gables have ashlar parapets, with tall finials. Internal ashlar stack with 4 diagonal flues. Late C19, 2-window range attached to right, was service range, with leaded casements under shallow stone arches. C19 part-glazed door to left. E evation to left of entrance front is of 2-window range with gable to left. 5-light, canted, stone mullion bay window, to left, with 3-light stone mullion window above and similar 2-light window to attic; all have arch head lights. Similar 2-light windows to right. Gable has stepped ashlar parapets with tall finials at eaves and apex. Datestone in apex of gable. Elevation to left is a 3-window range, of sash windows, similar to the entrance front. Central C20 glazed door has chamfered ashlar sur ound. Interior; ground floor is on 2 levels accessible of central stair, with early C19 stick balustrades. Early C19 door surrounds with corner roundels and panelled window reveals. Some early C19 fireplaces to first floor rooms. Correspondence between Freke Evans of Laxton Hall (q.v.) and Repton indicates Freke Evans dissatisfaction with the construction of this building. (Northamptonshire Records Office; Freke E ans (Laxton) Collections)

{4} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 3/163 (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.115 (unchecked) (Series). SNN77384.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Laxton (Photographs). SNN112600.

<5> Historic England, Undated, THE OLD VICARAGE, LAXTON, BF084516 (Archive). SNN116105.

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Feb 26 2024 10:17AM