Description

The following Buildings shall be added:-

EASENHALL
SP 47 NW -
6/10013 Town Thorns
- II
Country house, now office. 1873 by Alfred Waterhouse for Washington
Jackson. Red brick with stone dressings. Roof behind parapet. Brick
axial stacks with cornices. PLAN: Square double depth plan, the tower
and service wing on the east side demolished. Italianate style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys 2:1:2 bay north front with rusticated quoins,
modillion cornice and parapet with ball finials; centre bay pilastered
and with pediment; ground floor large stone port-cochere with pairs
of Tuscan columns flanked by canted bay windows; first floor string
courses; moulded stone architraves to first and second floor windows,
first floor with moulded cornices, second floor with shouldered round
arches. Sash windows with margin panes. S elevation 2:1:2 bays,
projecting bowed bay at centre with Tuscan columns to stone ground
floor and pediments to flanking ground floor windows. 1:2:1 west
elevation, projecting bays left and right with 2-storey canted bays.
East elevation 3-storeybawon left; plain on right where service wing
was attached. INTERIOR: Largely intact features including panelled en-
trance hall, open-well open-string staircase with elaborate newel on
3-tier curtail and lantern above. Ornate plaster cornices and original
joinery including panelled doors and overdoors.

NOTE: The Town Thorns estate was originally surveyed by Waterhouse for
Edward Cropper, but the 1873 commission was for the American,
Washington Jackson.
SOURCE: C Cunningham, Alfred Waterhouse 1830-1905, Biography of a
Practice, p240.

Listing NGR: SP4491279453

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26527235

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide