Great Addington House

GREAT ADDINGTON WOODFORD ROAD SP9575 14/15 Great Addington House GV II

Shown as Church Close on Ordnance Survey map. Rectory, now house. c.1670, altered 1870. Squared, coursed and regular coursed limestone with slate roof. Originally T-shape, now irregular U-shape plan. 2 storeys. Main front of 4-window range with end bays breaking forward as gabled cross wings. Centre 2 bays have 8-paned sash windows at first floor, under stone lintels with small gables over. Ground floor has plain C19 sash windows with gauged stone heads. Cross wings have C19 two-light stone mullion windows with transoms. Plank door with decorated hinges to left of centre is set in plain arch-head moulded stone surround. Ashlar gable parapets with finials and ashlar stacks at ridge and end. Fragment of reset carved stone above door and evidence of gauged stone heads to some C19 stone mullion windows. Rear elevation has C19 canted stone bay to far right and 2 C19 stone mullion windows, one in place of original door. Interior: originally cross passage with hall to right. Centre room, formerly the hall, has large open fireplace with bressumer. Ceiling has cross beams. Simple early C18 staircase with part splat balustrade. 2 windows in rear passage have stained glass escutcheons with arms of Peterborough, Bacon, Isham and Tarvers. Evidence of original trusses at first floor level. Room to left of entrance is of c.1870 remodelling. The house may originally have been a T-shape plan with centre range and right cross wing. A C19 wing of domestic offices to far right was demolished mid C20. (V.C.H.: Northamptonshire, Vol.3, p.155).

Listing NGR: SP9583575177