Listed Building: Church Farm House (1040264)

Farmhouse now house. C15 or early C16 origins, mainly mid C18 and C19. Regular coursed and squared coursed limestone with Colleyweston slate roof. Original plan indeterminate now double depth. 2 storeys. Main front is 3-window range. Central 4-panel door under wood lintel. Three-light sash windows also under wood lintels. Brick stacks at ends. Side elevations are twin gable ends of parallel gabled roofs. Interior: entrance hall has staircase with stick balustrade, reconstructed mid C20. Kitchen, to rear left, has open fireplace with high bressumer. Room to rear right has open fireplace with bressumer and moulded spine beam, probably reset. Arch-head recess to left wall of fireplace and squint in rear wall. Cloakroom to rear of entrance hall has late medieval doorway, now blocked, with chamfered wooden surround and 4-centred arch head. Evidence of similar doorway, alongside, above kitchen doorway. Included for group value. (RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p79)

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Sep 7 2023 1:00PM