Listed Building: MANOR HOUSE CHAPEL STREET (1191298)

Manor house. Datestone WA/1677, extended C19 and mid C20. Regular coursed limestone with ashlar facade and C20 plain tile roof. Originally shallow H-shape plan. 2 storeys with attic. Main front is a 5-window range. Gabled end bays break forward slightly. Central 6-panel, part-glazed, door has moulded and eared architrave with a central panel below a moulded cornice. Oval, first floor, window, above door, has moulded surround. Other ground and first floor windows are 2-light stone mullion windows with transoms and cyma-moulded architrave with fascias. Similar, 2-light, attic windows, in each gable. 2 hipped roof dormers with casement windows. Chamfered plinth and raised band between floors. Ashlar gable parapets and kneelers. Ashlar ridge stacks have moulded cornices; the left stack is rendered. Lozenge shape datestone in left gable, similar blank panel in right gable. Elevation to right has a 3-light stone mullion window to first floor, with a C20 doorway below, which has a re-used oulded stone surround. Elevation to left has casement windows with wood lintels. Rear elevation has central, gabled, stair turret and C19 single-storey extensions flanking. Interior: C17 staircase, with half landing, has turned balustrade and panelled newels with ball finials. The entrance hall and drawing room, to right, have C17 bolection moulded panelling with matching wooden fireplace surrounds. The dining room and the kitchen, to the left of the entrance hall, both have remains of open f replaces. Stop-chamfered spine beams. Room to first floor right has fireplace with a bolection moulded and eared surround, short pilasters and bolection moulded panel to the overmantle. Room to first floor left of centre has a C17 fireplace with moulded stone surround and sunk panels. C17 and C18 panelled doors. The back staircase to the far left hand corner probably occupies the position of the original back staircase which only gave access to the first floor room to the far left and the attic . (RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p163)

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