Building record 4140/6/1 - Gretton House, High Street

Country house, now residential home. Mid C18 extended 1880's.

{1} Country house, now residential home. Mid C18 extended 1880's. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar dressings and stone slate roof. Originally probably L-shape plan now complex. 2 storeys with attic. Main front parallel to road is C18 of 5-window range. Central 3-panel door with fanlight has moulded stone architrave and keyblock. Sash windows with glazing bars have similar surround to door. Flat string course between floors and flat ashlar quoins. Moulded wood cornice with projections highlighting the window heads. 3 hipped roof dormers with leaded casements and pulvinated friezes. Ashlar gable parapets and ashlar stacks with moulded cornices at ends. Entrance front to right of main front is C19 in C17 style with one- to 9-light stone mullion windows with leaded lights and some transoms. Range to right of centre breaks forward with centre gable having a tall staircase window. Single-storey porch to left of centre has arch-head opening flanked by pairs of columns with frieze and entablature above each. Jacobean style decorations to gables and finials above. Range projecting to right of entrance front is C19 in similar style with a lean-to half timbered porch. Garden front to left of main front is C19 in similar style with 4 irregular projecting gables. 6-light stone mullion and transom windows and large central canted stone bay window. Late C19 conservatory to right. Interior: entrance hall to centre of main front has C18 staircase with 2 turned balusters per tread. Room to right has fragments of C18 panelling. Room above has cupboard door like openwork panelling. Main entrance hall has C19 staircase with heavy turned balusters.

{5} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 11/57 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1992, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), K06 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN46686.

<3> Ellison, M., 1999, Gretton House, 3 High Street, Gretton, (checked) (Photographs). SNN105504.

<4> HET Buildings Conservation Team, 1993-2006, Buildings Planning Files, G139/2/11 (part checked) (HET Planning File (Buildings)). SNN105512.

<5> Photographs of buildings in Gretton (Photographs). SNN111741.

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Jan 7 2025 1:04PM