Listed Building: Sundial, attached walls and outbuilding approx 20m south west of Manor Farmhouse (8/35)

Sundial, attached walls and outbuilding. Probably late C17 with C18 sundial. Squared coursed limestone, sundial has ashlar façade, outbuilding has Collyweston slate roof. Sundial is an eliptically arched recess, set in the wall, with Roman numerals following the springing line. Small moulded cornice above numerals and moulded cornice above arch. Attached walls form 3 sides of former kitchen garden. Square head doorway, set in east wall spur, has moulded stone surround. Outbuilding in south-west corner, may have been a summerhouse. Square head doorway, with chamfered stone surround, and oval window with stone surround. East wall continues southwards to cottage in Hall Yarn (not included). The walls may have been the kitchen garden walls to the house built on the site of Collyweston Palace. The Palace, which had been the home of Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond was dismantled about 1640. A new house was built on the site by the Tryon family probably in the mid/late C17. (RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p33)

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