Laxton Park Gates

SP 99 NE, 4/148

LAXTON, A43 (West side), Laxton Park Gates

(Formerly listed as Gateway and Lodges on main road E of Laxton Hall)

23.05.67

II

Gatehouse now 2 dwellings. c.1824 probably after designs of 1806 by Humphry Repton, extended late C20. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar facades. Slate roofs. Central gate arch with semi-circular head and keystone. Cornice above with stepped attic. Square head pedestrian openings in flanking wails have moulded architraves and cornices above. Identical lodge houses are linked to left and right of gate arch by the flanking walls. Each house is a one-unit plan with a kitchen and pantry. 2-storey, one-window range of sash windows with glazing bars set in moulded stone architraves. Triangular pediments over. Lateral ashlar Stacks. Flanking walls, attached to the left and right, terminating with a square piers, each have C20 windows at ground floor. Behind the walls are the kitchen and pantry for each lodge house. The lodge house to the left has a late C20 extension to far left. Chamfered plinth throughout. The return walls of the lodge houses, facing into the driveway, originally had a central doorway with flanking sash windows and blank recessed panels above. The doorway and a window have now been interchanged. The rear elevation of each lodge house has a blank, arch-head recessed panel. The gate arch has iron gates by John Parker of Knightsbridge. Interiors not inspected.

(Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: p289; RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: pl14)

Listing NGR: SP9685697420