Building record 1623/4 - Brixworth Hall

Possible origins in the late 16th century but substantially rebuilt during the 18th and 19th centuries. Also an 18th century gate. Demolished in 1954.

{1} Post medieval country house of Brixworth Hall.

{2} Brixworth Hall, built in the 1740s and demolished in 1954, was described as 'yellow sandstone'; pictorial records, including Perrin's watercolour in Northampton Central Library, suggest it was a light-coloured rock from the Northampon Sand.

{3} Illustration;

{4} Sales particulars for the sale of Brixworth Hall in 1801; comprising a 'Spacious Stone Mansion, Coach House, Stabling, Gardens, Canals and Fish-Ponds'.

{5} Brixworth Hall stands almost in the centre of the village in extensive grounds, and is a fair-sized building of three stories above a lofty ground floor, probably erected towards the end of the 18th century, but incorporating parts of an older house. The main, or south, front has a centrally placed doorway with semicircular head beneath an entablature, three squareheaded windows on each side, and seven windows in the upper stories; there is a projection at each end, set well back. The building is constructed of yellow sandstone with dressings of white Weldon stone, and finishes with a cornice and plain parapet, hiding the leaded roof. The portions of the building at the back have high-pitched roofs, and on the west side there remains a two-light mullioned window, now blocked. On the north-west are hunting-stables and outbuildings, and to the north-east, overlooking the lawn, an orangery. The Hall, at present unoccupied, was for some time the headquarters of the Pytchley Hunt Club, and the kennels of the Hunt are still in the village. It is the property of W. T. Vere Wood.

{6} Built 1595 with considerable alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. From 1925 the building stood empty; it was a German Prisoner of War Camp during WWII. Demolished in 1954. All that remains is the lake and stable block, both surrounded by modern development.

{7}Small portion of sketch only;

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1958, OS 6 Inch Map Series, (unchecked) (Map). SNN20912.

<2> Sutherland D.S., 2003, Northamptonshire Stone, p.69 (checked) (Book). SNN104515.

<3> NEALE J.P., 1818, Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, p. 124 (Book). SNN111186.

<3> 1992, RECORDING FORM, (unchecked) (Note). SNN47059.

<4> Unknown, 1801, Particulars and Conditions for Sale of a capital freehold estate situated at Brixworth (Pamphlet). SNN111188.

<5> Salzmann, L F., 1937, A History of the County of Northamptonshire, p. 150 (Book). SNN110592.

<6> Brixworth Village Appraisal Committee, 1994, Brixworth: A Village Appraisal (Book). SNN111187.

<7> CLARKE G., 1850, Pencil Sketches, (unchecked) (Drawing). SNN45696.

Record last edited

Dec 7 2023 8:57AM