Building record 3321/0/13 - Brickyard Lodge

Lodge. C.1800. Coursed squared limestone, limestone dressings and some ashlar; lead and plain-tile roofs, stone internal stacks.

{1} Lodge. C.1800. Coursed squared limestone, limestone dressings and some ashlar; lead and plain-tile roofs, stone internal stacks. 2-unit plan. 2-storey, 2-window range. 2-light leaded windows to ground and 1st floors with ovolo-moulded stone mullions, arched heads to lights, pierced central spandrel and moulded and hollow-chamfered rectangular stone surrounds. Left end elevation facing former drive is ashlar-faced and has 2-storey canted bay with similar windows. Entrance to rear with moulded Tudor-arched doorway with cut spandrels in rectangular stone surround. Plinth, storey band, moulded stone cornice and plain stone-coped parapet concealing roof. Stacks have paired dressed stone flues with moulded cornices. Lower 2-storey, 1-window C19 extension to right end. Sitting room with bay window facing drive has panelling and bolection-moulded stone chimney piece said to have been removed from Easton Maudit House, demolished 1801 when estate was acquired by the Comptons.

{3} Some 400m north of the village, at the west end of The Basin, is Brickyard Lodge (listed grade II), a limestone ashlar building of c 1800 in the Elizabethan style, with a shallow, two-storey bay window facing the drive. Adjoining it is a limestone ashlar bridge (listed grade II), also of c 1800.

{4} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 12/39 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F12 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> English Heritage, 1994, Register of Parks & Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England (1994, Northamptonshire), (unchecked) (Report). SNN1324.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Castle Ashby (Photographs). SNN111838.

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Aug 2 2021 4:01PM