Lamport Hall in Lamport, Northamptonshire, was the home of the Isham family from 1560 to 1976 and is a fine example of a Grade I Listed House. It is open to the public. Lamport is a village in the Daventry district of the county of Northamptonshire in England. ... Northamptonshire (abbreviated Northants or Nhants) is a landlocked county in central England with a population of 629,676 (2001 census). ... Buckingham Palace, a Grade I listed building. ...
The 10th Baronet, Sir Charles Isham (1819–1903), is credited with beginning the tradition of garden gnomes in the United Kingdom when he introduced a number of terracotta figures from Germany in the 1840s. The GNOME project is an international effort to create an easy-to-use computer desktop environment built entirely from software considered free by the Free Software Foundation. ... Terra cotta is a hard semifired waterproof ceramic clay used in pottery and building construction. ...
LamportHall was the home of the Isham family from 1560 to 1976.
The proportions of LamportHall are determined by Webb's building of 1655 which has details borrowed from Inigo Jones's Banqueting House in London including rusticated stonework, semicircular and triangular pediments alternating over the windows and a balustrade at roof level.
The Staircase Hall ceiling dates from 1740 and armorial glass was brought to LamportHall from the demolished Pytchley Hall, another of the Isham family's houses.