Steane Park is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1969. Country house.

Steane Park

WRENN ID
guardian-threshold-saffron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Northamptonshire
Country
England
Date first listed
4 February 1969
Type
Country house
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SP53NE FARTHINGHOE STEANE

6/96 Steane Park 04/02/69

  • II

Country House. Section of larger house demolished c.1750. C16/17, altered C19. Squared coursed limestone, coursed rubble, ironstone dressings. Tiled roof, stone stacks. 2 storeys and attic. South front 7 bays, has 2 gables to left and one to right. Doorway in right bay has stone 4 centred arch and 9 panel door. Blocked doorway with similar arch third bay from left. Irregularly spaced stone mullioned windows of 2, 3 and 4 lights with square hoods. C19 stone mullioned windows in third bay from right on ground and first floor, and in left bay ground floor. Main entrance on East side, remodelled C19, has storey bay window and gabled stone porch of this date. Rear has 6 gables and stone mullioned and transomed windows, mostly renewed C19. North-West bay near porch added Clq. Interior not inspected, but said to have Clb stone fireplace in dining room with 4 centred arch and C18 staircase with turned balusters, elaborated with extra carving in the Cl9. Originally The Manor House of the Bray family. c.1590 it passed by marriage to Thomas Crewe, Speaker of the House of Commons, who remodelled the house. It is shown in a C17 painting in Durham Castle. c.1740-50 two thirds of the house was demolished. (A. Oswald, The Chapel at Steane Park; Country Life July 2nd, 1938, p.12).

Listing NGR: SP5540638983

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