Building record 3321/0/7 - East or Nevitt's Lodge

Lodge. Late C18/early C19. Rendered, hipped thatch roof, stone ridge stack.

{1} Lodge. Late C18/early C19. Rendered, hipped thatch roof, stone ridge stack. 2-unit plan. 2-storey, 2-window range. Entrance end has rustic portico with tree-trunk posts and pointed-arched central doorway with plank door and overlight. 3-light Gothick casement windows to ground floor with rendered hood moulds and 3-light eyebrow dormers with pointed-arched heads and timber intersecting tracery. Single-storey lean-to extension to rear. Interior not inspected.

{3} Three lodges stand at the end of drives across Castle Ashby park. On its south-east boundary, above Park Pond, is Nevitt’s Lodge (listed grade II), an early C19, two-storey, gothick thatched cottage with a rustick-work porch at the gable end. This adjoins a pair of tall, probably early C18, limestone gate piers (listed grade II), which stand at the end of the trees which represent the broken line of the east avenue.

{4} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 6/43 (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.

Record last edited

Aug 2 2021 4:04PM