Building record 2888/0/15 - Beaumont, & Terrace & Railings Attached to Main Front

A house that was built circa 1828 with cast iron railings to front is situated on the eastern side of Stamford Road. The building is constructed of squared coursed limestone and ashlar with a hipped Collyweston slate roof with lateral and gable chimney stacks. The building is accessed via a set of ashlar steps to a garden terrace bounded by decorative iron railings. The entrance facade has a three window range of unhorned sliding sash windows with similar windows flanking an entrance porch on the ground floor. The entrance porch has a flat roof that is held by two ribbed and painted columns with a plain entablature.

{1} House. c.1828 incorporating parts of earlier building. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar dressings and Welsh and Collyweston slate roofs. Double depth plan. 2 storeys. Main front is a 3-window range. Central rusticated ashlar porch with ribbed and painted columns, plain entablature, moulded cornice and flat roof. Double, panelled, doors with rectangular fanlight. Unhorned sash windows, with glazing bars, reducing at first floor. All under gauged stone heads with ashlar dressings and decorati e wooden blind boxes. Hipped roof with wide eaves. Lateral ashlar stacks. Service wing to rear is probably earlier, with a Collyweston slate roof. Terrace attached to main front has a double flight of steps and C19 cast iron railings. A service access leading to the rear, passes under the terrace. Interior not inspected but noted as having some early C19 fittings.

{4} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 9/114 (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.48 (unchecked) (Series). SNN77384.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Duddington (Photographs). SNN112103.

<5> Bailey, B, Pevsner, N, and Cherry, B, 2013, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p. 241 (Book). SNN111989.

<6> Historic England, Undated, BEAUMONT, DUDDINGTON WITH FINESHADE, BF084621 (Archive). SNN114484.

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Dec 8 2022 2:43PM