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Drayton House
In the civil parish of Lowick.
In the historic county of Northamptonshire (Modern Authority of Northamptonshire, 1974 county of Northamptonshire).
Great house which Sir Simon Drayton was given a licence to crenellate in 1328. Additions were carried out during C15 and late C16. The house was remodelled during the early C18. Much of the west part of the house was rebuilt and the hall refronted in 1702 to designs by Talman.
This site has been described as a;
Fortified Manor House.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.
A Royal licence
to crenellate was
granted in 1328 Sept 16.
This site is a
Grade 1 listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 232497)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SP96308002
PastScape number;
347571
Books
- Salter, Mike, 2002, The Castles of the East Midlands (Malvern) p74
Emery, Anthony, 2000, Greater Medieval Houses Vol2 (Cambridge) p183
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p166
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p319
Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1961, Buildings of England: Northamptonshire (Penguin) p189
Page, Wm (ed), 1930, VCH Northampton Vol3 p231
Tipping, H.A., 1920, English Homes, period 4 Vol1 (London) p249-56
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p245-6, 408
Buck, Samuel and Nathenial, 1774, Buck’s Antiquities (London) Vol1 p209
Journal Articles
- 1981, Northamptonshire Archaeology Vol16 p175-77
Cornforth, J., 1965 June 3, Country Life p1346-1350
Cornforth, J., 1965 May 27, Country Life p1286-1289
Cornforth, J., 1965 May 20, Country Life p1216-1229
Cornforth, J., 1965 May 13, Country Life p1146-1150
1953, Archaeological Journal Vol110 p188-9
1912, Archaeological Journal Vol69 p486
Guidebooks
- Jackson-Stops, G,, 1978, Drayton House
Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents
- This section is far from complete and the secondary
sources should be consulted for full references.)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls (1327-30) p319
Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
- Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p323
Toulmin-Smith, Lucy (ed), 1910, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 (Bell and Sons; London) Vol1 p6
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