Description

SP 99 NE,
4/157

LAXTON,
LAXTON PARK,
Service wing and attached Chapel at Laxton Hall

(Former listed as Laxton Hall Blackfriars School)

23.05.67

G.V.

II

Service wing and orangery to country house now residential home and Roman
Catholic Chapel. c.1809 probably to designs by Humphry Repton carried out by
William Carter for George Freke Evans. Orangery reconstructed as a chapel
early/mid C20. Squared coursed limestone, limestone ashlar and weatherboarding
with Welsh slate roof. Irregular L-shape plan. 2 storeys. Garden front is an
irregular 7-window range of casements, those at ground floor are under shallow
stone arches and those at first floor are under stone lintels. The ground floor
windows correspond with the basement windows of Laxton Hall and attached steps
and balustrade (q.v.). Some windows are blind. Hipped roof with brick and ashlar
stacks at ridge. One window range, set back to far left, has tripartite sash
with a moulded stone surround and is linked by a narrow flat-roofed element to
the garden front of Laxton Hall and attached steps and balustrade (q.v.). Former
orangery, now a chapel, is attached at right angles to far right. Portico at end
of this range has 4, unfluted, Tuscan Columns, with entasis, and a flight of
steps. Only the basement walls of the orangery remain, the ground floor has been
reconstructed as a weatherboarded structure. Rear elevation of the service wing
has a 3-window range to the centre, 2 bays to the left set back and break
forward, with doorway to left, and 2 bays to right are stepped forward. Windows
are mainly casements, some with leaded liqhts. The two ranges which form the
L-shape plan are linked by a narrow flat-roofed element. INTERIOR: the range
immediately adjacent to Laxton Hall has plaster cornices and some C19
fireplaces. The range at right angles to this contained the kitchens. The
staircase has a plain iron balustrade by John Baker. The interior has been
remodelled during C20. Humphry Repton was dismissed in 1808, following a
dispute, William Carter probably carried out these works to his design.

(Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: p. 289; RCHM: An Inventory of
Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: pl. 12; Northamptonshire
Records Office; Freke Evens (Laxton) Collection and Architectural Drawings
Collection)

Listing NGR: SP9600297004

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26527375

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