Architecture Notes

Event ID 658192

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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Northfield House, a mansion of late 16th or early 17th century date, is L-shaped on plan and stands two storeys, an attic and garret in height. It measures 74' along the S wall by 27 1/2' along the W wall. The E part of the main wing was extended in 1611, very shortly after completion, to contain the stair and S entrance, above which the date 1611 appears. There is a tablet-shaped sundial dated 1647 on a rockery in the garden.

RCAHMS 1924, visited 1920

Northfield House is as described. A sundial possibly from the rockery stands in the garden at NT 3893 7388. The date is worn and the gnomon has been removed.

Visited by OS (RD) 4 January 1972.

W Schomberg Scott lived here and restored the house 1951-97.

Non-Guardianship Sites Plan Collection, DC28415- DC28421, 1962.