Listed Building: NUMBER 28 WEST STREET AND ATTACHED STEPS (1266257)

House. Datestone W.C. 1845 for William Cunnington. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof. 2-unit plan with lean-to additions. 3 storeys with cellars. 3-window range. Central, 6-panelled, door with rectangular fanlight, has moulded stone eared surround and flat-stone hood, with brackets. 6-paned, unhorned, sash windows with moulded stone eared architraves enclosing plain aprons, below ground floor and first floor windows. Window reduce at second floor. Horizontally hanelled ashlar plinth with 2 boarded cellar windows. Rusticated quoins and raised band between ground and first floor. Ashlar end stacks, one with datestone. Flight of steps to front door, with horizontally channelled ashlar side walls. Lean-to extension to left has C19 casement window under wood lintel. Rear elevation has C19 casement windows and arch-head stair window. Interior: hall noted as having staircase with stick balustrade, rising around a narrow open well. William Cunnington was a local Coal Merchant, Maltser, Miller and Brewer. (RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: 103)

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