Listed Building: The Priory (1286906)

Large house. 1588, and late C17 (for the Maydwell family) with some later modification. Ashlar and coursed limestone rubble with Collyweston stone slate roof, coped gables, moulded stone ridge and end stacks and a brick lateral stack. 2 storeys and attic. Half-H plan. Garden front: 9 windows wide. (5 windows to main block and 2 windows to the gable end of each wing). 6/6 sashes linked by flush bands at window head level, and with flush keystones to ground floor. Windows to south wing and central ground floor window blind. Second window from left of main block originally a door. 5 hipped, 2-light small-paned iron-framed gudgeon-hung casement dormers to main block. Gables of wings of ashlar. South wing has ironstone quoins. Entrance front: projecting south wing dated 1588 has a 3-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned window in the gable, and similar blocked windows to ground and first floors of both gable end and right flank (left flank has a C19 French window, and a large 6/6 sash). Main block presumably originally 5 windows wide but central first floor window skilfully removed. Central pedimented porch with double 2-panelled doors masks roll-moulded stone architrave, with pulvinated frieze and cornice. Flush window-head band with flush keystones. Raised band. Cornice. Windows small-paned gudgeon-hung cross-casements. 5 dormers at garden front. Ground floor left-hand window blocked. Right-hand bay concealed by small C19 ashlar addition, with hipped roof and sash windows. Lower gabled addition in front of north wing has sash windows with gauged stone heads. Interior of south wing altered in C19 to create one left storey, but retains 2-bay original roof, with closed collar and tie beam truss and 2 tiers of butt purlins. Plaster in roof space has C19 graffiti. Interior of main block also considerably altered in C19, but hall retains bolection-moulded stone chimney piece. Some panelled doors. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: p225)

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May 31 2023 12:31PM