Building record 5216/1/1 - Badby House, Our Lady of The Passion Monastery (Formerly Listed as Badby House)

House. Built 1826 for Charles William Watkins. Rendered brick, sandstone dressings, hipped slate roof, rendered brick internal chimneys.

{1} House. Built 1826 for Charles William Watkins. Rendered brick, sandstone dressings, hipped slate roof, rendered brick internal chimneys. 2 storeys. 3-window entrance front has double-leaf part-glazed door within single- storey portico in antis with two unfluted Greek Doric columns, approached by 3 moulded steps, columns and plain entablature of stone. Portico is in recessed central bay. C20 windows. Lower 2-storey service wing to right extended at right angles to provide link with the large C20 addition housing chapel which is not of special architectural importance. 5-window garden front to left side has recessed 3-window centre with central part-glazed garden door. Outer bays have tripartite windows, stone plinth, window sills and storey band. Rear elevation has lead rainwater heads inscribed WW/1826. Interior: inner staircase hall has stone floor and stone cantilever staircase with cast-iron balustrade and wreathed and ramped hand rail. The Drawing Room has a chimney piece of white and coloured marble with steel and brass grate, probably late C18.

{6} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 4/3 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F06 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN44900.

<3> Pevsner N.; Cherry B., 1973, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.100 (unchecked) (Series). SNN1320.

<4> 1830 (circa), Plan of Badby House (NRO Map 3526), (unchecked) (Plan). SNN109866.

<5> Bennett-Samuels M., 2006, A Desk-based Archaeological Assessment of Badby House, South of Daventry, Northamptonshire, (unchecked) (Report). SNN105681.

<6> Photographs of buildings in Badby (Photographs). SNN111890.

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Sep 27 2023 11:29AM