Building record 3320/3/13 - No.11 Castle Ashby Park (South Lodge & Attached Railing, Gatepiers & Gate, aka The Gardener's Cottage

Lodge. C.1800 extended mid C19. Limestone ashlar, pyramidal slate roof, stone lateral stacks.

{1} Lodge. C.1800 extended mid C19. Limestone ashlar, pyramidal slate roof, stone lateral stacks. 2-unit plan. 2-storey, 3-window range. Main front faces drive and has central panelled door in shallow porch with slender Tuscan columns and entablature. 2-light casement windows to ground floor left and right with segmental-arched head. Pointed arch-shaped windows to 1st floor with 2-light casement windows. Plinth, pilaster strips to angles and defining bays, sill bands and overhanging bracketed eaves. Large mid C19 Italianate-style extension to rear. Also known as the Gardener's Cottage. Attached railing extends from left corner of lodge to gate and gatepiers, with similar railing to other side of gate. Wrought-iron railings with ornamented cresting and standards or low stone-coped walls. Plain limestone ashlar gatepiers with moulded cornice and ball finials; modern 5-bar timber gate. Interior: contains a fine mid C18 fireplace almost certainly from Easton Maudit House.

{3} On the east side of the north end of the Avenue, west of the kitchen garden, is South Lodge (listed grade II), a limestone ashlar building of c 1800.

{4} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 6/48 (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 4 2021 3:54PM