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Latitude: 52.1642 / 52°9'51"N
Longitude: -1.0821 / 1°4'55"W
OS Eastings: 462880
OS Northings: 252166
OS Grid: SP628521
Mapcode National: GBR 9VN.973
Mapcode Global: VHCVT.6V9T
Plus Code: 9C4W5W79+M5
Entry Name: Seawell Grounds Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings
Listing Date: 1 December 1951
Last Amended: 14 December 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1371621
English Heritage Legacy ID: 235047
ID on this website: 101371621
Location: West Northamptonshire, NN12
County: West Northamptonshire
Civil Parish: Blakesley
Traditional County: Northamptonshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northamptonshire
Church of England Parish: Blakesley St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Peterborough
Tagged with: Farmhouse
BLAKESLEY
SP65SW
2/29 Seawell Grounds Farmhouse and
01/12/51 attached outbuildings
(Formerly listed as Seawell
Farmhouse and farm buildings)
- II
Farmhouse. c.1840, altered in C20 renovation. Coursed squared ironstone, hipped
slate roofs, stone ridge and internal stacks. 2-storey, 3-window central block
with lower 2-storey, 2-window wings either side. Central double-leaf,
part-glazed, door with panelled reveals and limestone porch with square columns
supporting plain frieze and cornice. 12-pane sash windows to ground and first
floors with flat-arched heads. Plinth, storey band and deep overhanging eaves.
Porch widened and rebuilt C20 and right ground floor window of left wing has had
sill dropped and made into garden door. Symmetrical composition completed by
single-storey outbuilding wings, each with 4 blank round-headed arches with
imposts. That to left housed cart-shed open to yard to rear, now garaging. That
to right is joined to extensive, altered range of farm buildings on three sides
of yard to rear. Interior has stone-flagged floors and some original stone
chimneypieces. Square pillars of porch originally circular, unfluted Doric
columns; changed in C20 alterations. One of a number of model farms built for
the 4th Duke of Grafton 1839-44.
(Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p,107; The Northamptonshire Landscape,
J. Steane, 1974, p.240-1).
Listing NGR: SP6288052166
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