The Old Vicarage

SP 99 NW, 3/163

LAXTON, MAIN STREET (South side), The Old Vicarage

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Vicarage now house. Date stone E/1806 by Humphry Repton and John Addey Repton for George Freke Evens, probably extended 1874. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar dressing and ashlar porch. Welsh slate and lead roofs. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys with attic. Entrance front has a pair of flush gables with a central gabled porch breaking forward. 3-window range of unhorned sash windows with glazing bars, set in chamfered ashlar surrounds, with keystones. First floor windows reduce in height. Porch has outer archway with 4-centred arch-head. Inner, part-glazed, door has semi-circular fanlight with glazing bars. Angle buttresses at corners of porch, terminating as short pinnacles. Flat roof, plain parapet, and glazed rooflight set back between gables. Gables have ashlar parapets, with tall finials. Internal ashlar stack with 4 diagonal flues. Late C19, 2-window range attached to right, was service range, with leaded casements under shallow stone arches. C19 part-glazed door to left. Elevation to left of entrance front is of 2-window range with gable to left. 5-light, canted, stone mullion bay window, to left, with 3-light stone mullion window above and similar 2-light window to attic; all have arch head lights. Similar 2-light windows to right. Gable has stepped ashlar parapets with tall finial at eaves and apex. Date stone in apex of gable. Elevation to left is a 3-window range, of sash windows, similar to the entrance front. Central C20 glazed door has chamfered ashlar surround. Interior; ground floor is on 2 levels accessible of central stair, with early C19 stick balustrades. Early C19 door surrounds with corner roundels and panelled window reveals. Some early C19 fireplaces to first floor rooms. Correspondence between Free Evans of Laxton Hall (q.v.) and Repton indicates Freke Evans dissatisfaction with the construction of this building. (RCHH: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p115; Northamptonshire Records Office; Free Evans (Laxton) Collections)

Listing NGR: SP9495596061