Description

NORTHAMPTON STREET
(West side)

No.4 The Dark Horse
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
NORTHAMPTON STREET
Nos.4-6 (Consecutive))
20/10/80

GV II

House, now public house. c1799 with C20 additions. Leased 25th March 1799, and built probably to designs of John Pinch the Elder.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front, ashlar and rubble to rear, double pile parapeted mansard roof with double Romans to front and rear with coped party wall with two ashlar stacks to left. Staircase to rear.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, three-window front. First floor has three six/six-sashes in plain reveals, second floor has three similar sashes, to left with horns, ground floor has to left two plate glass horned sashes in plain reveals with stone sills, to right six-panel door with beaded and fielded panels with decorative fanlight in round headed plain reveal within pedimented Doric porch with two three-quarter columns attached to pilasters to front immediately before pilaster responds. One pennant step to concreted crossover. Basement now not visible as area filled in. Double dormer with two/two horned sashes. Band course over ground floor, sill bands to first floor and second floor, frieze, dentil eaves cornice and coped parapet. Rear elevation has six/six-horned sashes and plate glass sashes, two/two-horned sash to single dormer, small one and a half storey ashlar extension and large extension in coursed squared Limestone c1987, lead hopperhead.
INTERIOR: Considerably altered on ground floor following a c1987 conversion.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached wrought iron railings and gate with shaped tops on limestone bases.
HISTORY: Northampton Street was built on the pleasure grounds of No.14 Royal Crescent, the property of Charles Hamilton. Purchased by the Pulteney Estate in 1791, and surveyed by Thomas Baldwin; but plans by Thomas Chantry in 1795 and John Pinch in 1799 ¿his first major work- superseded his. By 1800 there were 17 houses in Northampton Street, and this will be one of them.
SOURCES: Country Life: 6 November 1980: Francis Kelly: Apology for an Eyesore: 1687-1692.

Listing NGR: ST7457765554

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26674746

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)