Listed Building: The Old Rectory and attached wall, outbuildings and coach-house (4/91)

House, formerly rectory. C.1710-20, possibly by Francis Smith. Ironstone ashlar, C20 hipped plain-tile roof, brick internal stacks. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys and attic; 5-window range. Principal front faces garden and has part-glazed door, in moulded stone surround with keyblock and swans neck pediment, approached by 3 curved stone steps. 12-pane sash windows to ground and first floors with moulded stone sills and surrounds with keyblocks. Chamfered plinth, raised quoins, moulded storey band, moulded stone eaves cornice and 3 roof dormers. High attached stone wall to left with moulded stone coping conceals attached outbuilding and small service court. 3-window right side elevation has early C19 bay window and sash windows similar to those to front. Cross windows to rear and 1-light windows to ground and first floors with transoms flanking large early C19 leaded round-arched window lighting staircase. Small cobbled service Yard is surrounded by outbuildings with lean-to roofs and small coach-house with double-leaf doors, segmental arched doorway with keyblock and stone-coped gables with kneelers. Interior: stone-paved floors to front hall and staircase hall. Open-well staircase with barley-sugar twist balusters, fluted Doric column newels, ramped handrail, carved tread ends and dado. Drawing room and study have fielded panelling. Drawing room has bolection-moulded fireplace surround and fitted cupboard with round-arched head. Stone cellar. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, 1973, p.284).

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