Great Hall Blocked Doors, Canons Ashby

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MOLA archaeologists have been carrying out a detailed recording of Canons Ashby House. This sixteenth century country house in rural Northamptonshire began as a modest farm house and was gradually enlarged and altered by successive members of the Dryden family resulting in the jumbled architecture seen today. As well as traditional drawn and photographic survey techniques the archaeologists have carried out a complete laser survey of the house and photogrammetric models have been produced of several features. These are a pair of blocked doorways which formerly allowed access through the Great Hall into rooms at the north and were made obsolete by later rearrangement of space and access routes. The doors have Tudor arch or four-centred arched stone heads with spandrels and share a central jamb. The right hand door has two engraved L letters in the stonework and these are probable mason’s marks. Close examination of the door jambs reveal faint graffiti and features related to the former doors.