The Norwell, Canons Ashby

3D Model

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.

This is a sixteenth century stone-built Well House which formerly supplied water to Canons Ashby House by means of hollow oak pipes. The well continued to supply the house until the 1920s.