Building record 3250/24/1 - Wollaston House

House. 1856 for George Burnham. Squared coursed limestone with slate roof. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys.

{1} House. 1856 for George Burnham. Squared coursed limestone with slate roof. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys. Garden front of 3-window range with gabled cross-wing to left. Pairs of arch head sashes to right and triple sash with Venetian style head to left. Shallow gable to left, and similar smaller gables above windows to right all with decorative barge boards and finials. Stone stacks at ridge and end. Square tower to rear projects one storey above ridge with pairs of arch head windows; conical roof with weather vane and 2 stone stacks at corners. Other elevations are similar. Entrance to rear has porch with open colonnade. Interior not inspected but noted as having original C19 staircase. Example illustrated in Loudons Encyclopedia.

{3} Said to have been built for George Burnham, a Wellingborough solicitor, for himself. Italianate in style, L-shape, with a three-storey tower in the re-entrant angle. Typical windows of tall arched lights, as eg illustrated in Loudon's Encyclopaedia.

Sometime after the Second World War the house size was reduced by the removal of 2 bays of the service wing.

{5} Archaeological observation during excavation of new basement and service trenches at Wollaston House, found three 19th-century wells and a small quantity of unstratified pottery, including a fragment of Roman tile and a sherd of medieval shelly ware.

{6} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 22/348 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1986, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), p.145 G05 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN100394.

<3> Bailey, B, Pevsner, N, and Cherry, B, 2013, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p. 678 (Book). SNN111989.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1880s, First Edition Ordnance Survey 25 Inch Mapping Series (46.03), (unchecked) (Map). SNN58995.

<5> Taylor-Sutton, M, 2018, Wollaston House, Northamptonshire: Archaeological Watching Brief, 2018 (Report). SNN111235.

<6> Photographs of buildings in Wollaston (Photographs). SNN115383.

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Aug 23 2023 11:48AM