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Beaulieu Hall

A Grade II Listed Building in Hemington, North Northamptonshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.454 / 52°27'14"N

Longitude: -0.3899 / 0°23'23"W

OS Eastings: 509506

OS Northings: 285223

OS Grid: TL095852

Mapcode National: GBR GZQ.479

Mapcode Global: VHFNR.6L64

Plus Code: 9C4XFJ36+H2

Entry Name: Beaulieu Hall

Listing Date: 23 May 1967

Last Amended: 25 January 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1040225

English Heritage Legacy ID: 232645

ID on this website: 101040225

Location: Hemington, North Northamptonshire, PE8

County: North Northamptonshire

Civil Parish: Hemington

Traditional County: Northamptonshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northamptonshire

Church of England Parish: Hemington St Peter and St Paul

Church of England Diocese: Peterborough

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Description


TL08NE
9/90
23/05/67


HEMINGTON
Beaulieu Hall

(Formerly listed as Manor House)


II


Country house, now house. Probably late C16 for Montagu family, restored C20.
Squared coursed limestone with Collyweston slate roof. Originally probably
U-shaped plan, in Jacobean style, of which one wing remains. 2 storeys with
attic. Entrance front is a one-window range with 4-light stone mullion windows
to ground and first floor. Ground floor window has transom. Doorway to left has
4-centred arch-head and chamfered stone surround. C20 door. Moulded string
course between floors. Ashlar gable parapets and kneelers. Right gable has 2
moulded finials remaining, with diamond panel decoration to finial block at
eaves. Large stone stack, with brick coping, projecting from left gable. C20
two-bay extension, attached to left, has reconstructed stone mullion windows.
Right gable has 4-light stone mullion windows, with transoms, to ground and
first floor and 2-light stone mullion attic window. Moulded string courses
between floors. Rear elevation has large lateral stone stack, with brick coping,
to centre. Square-head doorway, to far right, has moulded stone surround with
moulded cornice and 2 rectangular panels above. C20 polygonal bay attached to
right. Interior: entrance hall has open fireplace with bressumer to left of
entrance, fragment of reset medieval masonry to right. Drawing room, to right of
hall, has C20 fireplace access to old lateral stack. Exposed ceiling beams are
mainly original. First floor room, above drawing room, has C17 fireplace with
4-centred arch-head and moulded stone surround. Remains of 5 roof trusses with
queen posts and clasped purlins. Said to have formed part of a moated site
enclosing 8 acres. Dean Swift, writing in 1713, records that the house had been
pulled down; it was recorded as two houses in early C19. A large fireplace was
removed in 1913.
(V.C.H.: Northamptonshire, Vol.3: p.80; RCH: An Inventory of Architectural
Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p.89).

Listing NGR: TL0950685223

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