Building record 465/1/1 - Bragborough Hall (Formerly Micklemoor House)

{1} Country House. C.1841 for R.H. Lamb, incorporating earlier work. Rendered walls, hipped slate roof, rendered stacks. 1840's additions are L-plan, around two sides of an earlier house. Entrance front, 2 storeys; 5 bays, the outer bays projecting slightly. Central porch of two square pillars and two unfluted Greek Doric columns. Inner doorway has C19 half-glazed double doors with overlight. Sash windows with rendered frames on either side. Sash windows with side lights in moulded stucco frames t :> n both floors. 3 sash windows in arched surrounds above the porch. Moulded stucco parapet. Part of earlier house to left at rear, probably C18, has rendered walls and slate roof. 2 storeys; 4 bays. Sash windows with rendered surrounds. Doorway in second bay from right has rendered frame, half glazed door and old timber hood on brackets. Side of C19 extension adjoining to right. 2 storeys; 2 bays. Sash windows in rendered surrounds and French window in right bay. Interior not :> but noted by N. Pevsner as having entrance hall with two Tuscan columns leading to an ante-room with an open circle in the centre and with access on right to the staircase, with simple iron balustrade. Fine late C18 fireplace from a house in Twickenham. The plans dated 1841 are in the Northampton Record office. They are signed by the builder William Thomson. The architect is unknown.

{4} The hall is a classically-inspired great house, built in 1841 to the north-east of Braunston village. It is considered that the current Hall is not the first house on the site, and indeed some of the outbuildings are somewhat older than 1841. The 1841 architects plans allude to an earlier core to the building, suggested as L-shaped in plan, but no other detail is apparent. Research shows that it was previously called Micklemoor House and it seems to have been created as an inclosure-date house and farm, within the 1775 enclosed landscape. Before this time the land was probably just open fields.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 5/64 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F04 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN44900.

<3> Pevsner N.; Cherry B., 1973, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.120-21 (unchecked) (Series). SNN1320.

<4> Soden I., 2012, Archaeological Desk-based Assessment of the Bragborough Hall Estate, Braunston and Welton, Northamptonshire, p.1-3 (checked) (Report). SNN109838.

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Apr 1 2015 2:22PM