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Latitude: 52.1378 / 52°8'15"N
Longitude: -0.976 / 0°58'33"W
OS Eastings: 470178
OS Northings: 249323
OS Grid: SP701493
Mapcode National: GBR BXB.S3J
Mapcode Global: VHDSJ.1JCK
Entry Name: Real Tennis Court at Easton Neston House
Listing Date: 15 March 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1371595
English Heritage Legacy ID: 234882
Location: Easton Neston, South Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, NN12
County: Northamptonshire
District: South Northamptonshire
Civil Parish: Easton Neston
Traditional County: Northamptonshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northamptonshire
Church of England Parish: Easton Neston St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Peterborough
SP 7048 EASTON NESTON EASTON NESTON PARK
12/64 Real Tennis Court at Easton
Neston House
GV II
Real Tennis Court. 1887 on earlier foundations. Red brick with limestone
dressings, slate roof. Adjacent to wing attached to Easton Neston house (q.v.)
and lying between wing and kitchen garden on west boundary of formal garden. The
court has blank wall to ground floor, a timber balcony at first floor level of
garden front and row of wood mullion and transom windows above with flat-arched
brick lintels and flanked by fluted Ionic pilasters bearing sections of
entablature. Moulded stone cornice and plain stone-coped parapet. Penthouses and
tambour removed. Included for group value.
(Lord Aberdare, Tennis and Rackets, 1980, p221)
Listing NGR: SP7017849323
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