Burton Latimer Hall is an Elizabethan manor house in the village of

Burton Latimer Burton Latimer is a town in North Northamptonshire, England, approximately southeast of Kettering and 4.5 miles north of Wellingborough. At the 2021 census, its population was 10,444. History Burton (Latimer) appears in three entries in the ...

, Northamptonshire. It is a

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building. The Hall, probably of medieval origin, was remodelled and enlarged in the early 17th century. The west front dates from the mid-18th century and the south wing from 1872. It is built of coursed

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rubble with an

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west front and a Collyweston stone slate roof. In plan it consists of a main block with two cross-wings and an additional wing to the south. The manor of Burton Latimer, one of two Burton manors, belonged in earlier times to the Latimer family. After passing into the hands of the Bacon family the 17th-century refurbishment was carried out by Edmund Bacon c.1620. The Lordship was eventually bought in 1760 by John Harpur, who soon afterwards combined it with the other

Burton manor Burton Manor is a former manor house in the village of Burton, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. At one time an adult education college, this is now clos ...

. The Hall and its surrounding estate have belonged to the Harpur family ever since. In the grounds stand a

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dovecote and a

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stable block.

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