Building record 3368/3/1 - Compton House

{1} House, formerly vicarage. Built 1893 by Fairfax B. Wade at the expence of 5th Marquis of Northampton. Red brick with limestone dressings, plain-tile roofs, brick internal stacks. H plan. Jacobean style. 2 storeys and attic; 4-window range. Front to forecourt has central 5-light window to recessed centre bay with 4-centred head, moulded stone mullions and transom, arched heads to lights, small shields to spandrels and hood mould continuing string course. Door to left approached by 2 steps with panelled part-glazed door, moulded stone surround and ogee moulding and shield to stone lintel. 2-light moulded stone mullion windows to 1st floor with hood moulds. Similar 3-light windows to ground and 1st floors of left wing, similar 4-light window to ground floor of right wing and 3-light window to 1st floor. Wave-moulded stone plinth, diaper patterning of flared headers to brick work incorporating Ns to central bay. Raised bands of quoins to wings of alternating brick and stone. Moulded stone storey with stone surrounds. Centre bay has taller shaped gable with horizontal keyed oval window to gable. Stone bands to gables, which are stone-coped with kneelers and have stone finials. Entrance front to left of 3 bays has central 2-storey gabled stone porch with panelled door, moulded stone surround with basket-arched head to door, blank shields to spandrels and hood mould. Shallow curved oriel window above with 3-light moulded stone mullion and transom window, shield to moulded base of oriel bearing initial N for Northampton in Garter crowned with marquis's coronet and parapet to top of oriel carved with fleur-de-lys and trefoil frieze. Porch has shaped, stone-coped gable which bears date 1893. Porch flanked by 2-storey seated stone bay windows with moulded stone mullion and transom windows to ground floor, stone mullion windows to 1st floor and shaped parapet. Gables over bay windows with circular windows which have stone surrounds and hood moulds. Garden front has similar composition to forecourt front. Wings have shallower projection. Centre has 2-storey seated stone bay window and one-light windows to ground and 1st floors to far left of bay window. Left wing has door to right of ground floor window with panelled, part-glazed door, stone surround and hood mould, approached by 3 steps. On the opposite side to the main entrance is a single-storey service wing. Interior: hall has original chimneypiece. Open well staircase. Plans in possession of owners.

{4} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 15/90 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

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

<3> Pevsner N.; Cherry B., 1973, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.184 (unchecked) (Series). SNN1320.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Denton (Photographs). SNN111633.

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Sep 4 2019 2:59PM