Listed Building: PLEASANT VIEW 29 PARK STREET (1357133)

3 almshouses and attached house, now one dwelling. c.1668 founded by John Thorpe altered C20, and late C18 house. Squared coursed limestone with Collyweston slate roof. Originally each single-unit plans. Single storey. 3-window range of 2-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion windows with hood moulds. 2 C20 stable doors, under renewed wood lintels, between window ranges. Blocked door to far right. Chamfered plinth. Ashlar gable parapet to left and ashlar ridge and end stacks. House attached to right is a 2-window range of C20 leaded casements under wood lintels at first floor. 2 canted bays, also with C20 leaded casements, and slated roofs at ground floor. Central C20 door under wood lintel. Brick and stone stacks at ends. Interior not inspected but almshouses noted as having remains of small oven on fireplace. Central gable removed from almshouses 1937 and inscribed panel recording foundation now reset at Cornforth Homes, Bridge Street. (RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in N rth Northamptonshire: p100)

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Dec 19 2022 11:53AM