Listed Building: Berrister House (1192222)

Rectory, now house. Early C18 and early C19. Squared coursed limestone with Colleyweston slate roof. Originally U-shape plan, now double-depth. 2 storeys with attic. Main front of 5-window range. Central C19 part-glazed door has panelled reveals, fanlight with glazing bars and moulded wood surround. Sash windows with glazing bars under gauged stone heads. Moulded stone cornice and hipped roof with 3 hipped roof dormers with casement windows. Brick and stone stacks at ridge. Elevation to left has similar sash windows with wood lintels. Rear elevation has 2 projecting wings with hipped roofs and C19 single-storey lean-to between. Similar sash windows, one is tripartite. Interior has early C18 staircase with turned balusters, stone flagged floors and remains of large open fireplace with bressumer in room to right of entrance. Deeds of house date from C14 when it was a rectory belonging to The College of Newark, Leicester. It became lay property at the Dissolution of the Monastery after which part of the grounds were granted for the building of a new vicarage. (Northamptonshire County Records Office).

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Sep 5 2023 12:22PM