Building record 1514/1/1 - Potterspury Lodge (Rudolf Steiner School)

A late 17th century country house with alterations and additions made circa 1900. Now a Rudolf Steiner school.

{1} Country house, now school. Late C17 with extensive alterations and additions of c.1900. Coursed squared limestone with ironstone dressings, plain-tile roof, brick lateral and internal stacks. 2-storey, 7-window range. Original plan unclear. Original 3-bay centre breaks forward and has central part-glazed door with moulded eared ironstone surround flanked by panelled pilasters topped by console brackets supporting pulvinated frieze with blank tablet to centre and broken segmental pediment framing base of former urn or cartouche of arms. Doorcase and windows either side are now in large canted stone porch of c.1900. 12-pane sash windows to ground and 1st floors with flat-arched heads. Centre has chamfered quoins, plain parapet with segmental raised centre and ball finials, and timber octagonal cupola of c.1900 to roof with Tuscan columns, domed lead roof and weather-vane incorporating sailing ship. 2-storey-and-attic, 2-window projecting wing to left with Venetian window to ground floor. Sash windows to 1st floor and hipped roof with segmental dormer; c.1900. Other additions to rear. Interior has open-well staircase with twisted balusters on bulbous feet and one room with C17 panelling. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: p377)

{4} Seven undated photos, one photo dated July 1976 and one dated 11.11.1993;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 6/143 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F11 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> Pevsner N.; Cherry B., 1973, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.377 (unchecked) (Series). SNN1320.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Yardley Gobion (Photographs). SNN114339.

<5> Historic England, POTTERSPURY LODGE, YARDLEY GOBION, BF061916 (Archive). SNN115068.

Record last edited

Apr 27 2023 3:55PM