Listed Building: No. 2 (The Weir) (1293779)

House, formerly farmhouse. Early/mid C17. Coursed limestone rubble, ironstone dressings. Old and C20 plain-tile roof, brick end stack. L-plan. 2 storeys and attic; 2-window front range. Central false door flanked by stone buttresses disguised as gabled porch. 4-light wave-moulded stone mullion windows to ground and first floors, those to ground floor with hood moulds. Wave-moulded plinth, ironstone quoins, stone-coped gables with kneelers and one gabled roof dormer. Wing to rear left has 2- and 3-light casement windows with wood lintels and C20 glazed door with chamfered stone surround. Interior has moulded bar-stop-chamfered spine beams to ground floor and bar-stop-chamfered spine beams to first floor. Open fireplace with bar-stop-chamfered bressumer, C19 marble chimneypiece. Another fireplace with boxed bressumer. 2 stone corner fireplaces to first floor rooms of main range, both with moulded Tudor-arched heads and C19 grates. Old 2-panel doors with HL hinges. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, 1973, p.223).

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Sep 7 2023 12:35PM