Description

SP 99 NW,
3/163

LAXTON,
MAIN STREET (South side),
The Old Vicarage

II

Vicarage now house. Date stone E/1806 by Humphry Repton and John Addey Repton
for George Freke Evens, probably extended 1874. Squared coursed limestone with
ashlar dressing and ashlar porch. Welsh slate and lead roofs. Double-depth plan.
2 storeys with attic. Entrance front has a pair of flush gables with a central
gabled porch breaking forward. 3-window range of unhorned sash windows with
glazing bars, set in chamfered ashlar surrounds, with keystones. First floor
windows reduce in height. Porch has outer archway with 4-centred arch-head.
Inner, part-glazed, door has semi-circular fanlight with glazing bars. Angle
buttresses at corners of porch, terminating as short pinnacles. Flat roof, plain
parapet, and glazed rooflight set back between gables. Gables have ashlar
parapets, with tall finials. Internal ashlar stack with 4 diagonal flues. Late
C19, 2-window range attached to right, was service range, with leaded casements
under shallow stone arches. C19 part-glazed door to left. Elevation to left of
entrance front is of 2-window range with gable to left. 5-light, canted, stone
mullion bay window, to left, with 3-light stone mullion window above and similar
2-light window to attic; all have arch head lights. Similar 2-light windows to
right. Gable has stepped ashlar parapets with tall finial at eaves and apex.
Date stone in apex of gable. Elevation to left is a 3-window range, of sash
windows, similar to the entrance front. Central C20 glazed door has chamfered
ashlar surround. Interior; ground floor is on 2 levels accessible of central
stair, with early C19 stick balustrades. Early C19 door surrounds with corner
roundels and panelled window reveals. Some early C19 fireplaces to first floor
rooms. Correspondence between Free Evans of Laxton Hall (q.v.) and Repton
indicates Freke Evans dissatisfaction with the construction of this building.
(RCHH: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p115;
Northamptonshire Records Office; Free Evans (Laxton) Collections)

Listing NGR: SP9495596061

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26565834

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