Museum Tower, Bell Tower And Attached Outbuildings And Wall And The Old Chapel, Finedon Hall, And Attached Wall is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 1970. Museum, chapel. 7 related planning applications.
Museum Tower, Bell Tower And Attached Outbuildings And Wall And The Old Chapel, Finedon Hall, And Attached Wall
- WRENN ID
- carved-remnant-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1970
- Type
- Museum, chapel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This range of outbuildings, including a museum and winter garden, forms part of Finedon Hall, now incorporated into a dwelling house. The structures likely date to the 18th century, with additions and alterations in 1851 and 1856, and were probably designed by E.F. Law for William Mackworth-Dolben. The buildings are constructed of ironstone ashlar with slate and pantile roofs. They are arranged in an L-shape, with The Old Chapel, formerly a winter garden, attached to the north side. The architecture is in a Tudor-Gothic style, standing two and three storeys high.
The west elevation, facing the courtyard, originally comprised a four-window range of three-light stone mullion windows, but now retains much of the facade. A central gable, acting as a bell tower, features a semi-circular arch framed by niches with triple lancet windows above, a drip mould and, above that, five small arched openings, a bellcote, and a 1851 datestone. Clasping buttresses mark the corners, with an ashlar parapet and ashlar stacks at the ridge. An attached wall with an ashlar gatepier sits to the right. The south elevation, originally similar to the west, now retains a single window range to the far left with a semi-circular arch opening below.
Rear walls and two gable walls also remain, one featuring a Gothic window. The museum tower, located at the intersection of the wings, consists of two remaining stages with a gabled pyramid roof. The upper stage features a triple arcade on three sides, while the lower stage has a three-storey, three window range of single-light openings to the east face. A semi-circular stair turret is on the north face. Stone scrolls below the upper arcades are inscribed with "Filiis Fratibu Parentes”, "W.H.I.M.D. and F.M.D.", and “Victoria Rgnant A.D. 1856.” Traces of other inscriptions and carved heads are also present.
The west elevation of The Old Chapel has a five-bay arcade of double-chamfered 19th-century Gothic arches, with quatrefoil piers and foliated capitals. Trefoils are set in the spandrels between the arches. A corbelled cornice and ashlar gable parapets are present, along with a 20th-century extension to the left. A castellated wall attached to the left contains a semi-circular arch opening and niches. A castellated wall attached to the west end of the south elevation, linking with Finedon Hall, has three-stage buttresses and two small Gothic-style openings to the left and right. The Museum Tower, Bell Tower, attached buildings, and wall form two sides of a courtyard with Finedon Hall.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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