Catesby House

Catesby House is a country house built in 1863 in a Jacobean style, incorporating materials from the earlier Old Catesby House. It was enlarged in 1894. The house is constructed of ironstone ashlar with limestone dressings, and has a tile roof with stone stacks. It is two storeys and has an attic.

The principal front faces the garden and has a three-window range. The central part has a 20th-century door within an early 18th-century stone surround with a decorative hood and console brackets. The bays to the left and right project, showing reused chamfered quoins and single-storey bay windows with mullioned and transomed windows. The first floor windows are also mullioned and transomed. A string course runs along the first floor. The central bay has a plain coped parapet, while the left and right bays have elaborate shaped gables with obelisk finials, with one arched window blocked. A lower two-window range is positioned to the left, featuring mullioned and transomed windows. The right side elevation presents two two-storey bay windows, each with ornamental pierced and shaped parapets and obelisk finials, along with shaped gable ends.

The front entrance is flanked by tall, thin stacks over a projecting central bay and a single-storey porch. The porch features a round-headed arch with strapwork in the spandrels, flanked by pilasters and a shaped gable with an obelisk finial. Mullioned and transomed windows are located to the left and right of the ground and first floors. Inset strapwork panels are above the first-floor windows. A service wing with a 20th-century garage projects to the right.

Inside, the staircase hall contains 16th-century linenfold panelling purportedly from Catesby Priory, and late 17th-century doorcases with open segmental pediments leading to the Music Room and Dining Room. A late 17th-century staircase has a “big barley sugar” balustrade. The dining room holds late 17th-century reused panelling with moulded raised panels and a doorcase with an open segmental pediment. In the Music Room are elegant, French-style panelling, plasterwork, statuary, and a marble chimneypiece, likely dating to 1894.