Listed Building: MANOR COTTAGES 50 AND 51 WAKERLEY ROAD (11/142)

Manor house, now 2 dwellings. Late C13 origins, surviving range is probably mainly early C17 modified C19. Squared coursed limestone and limestone ashiar, with Collyweston slate roofs. Originally courtyard plan now L-shaped. 2 storeys with attic. Main front is a 5-window range. First floor window, to far left, is C15 two-light window with cusped ogee-head lights and hood mould. Below is a C19 casement set in a medieval square-head opening. Other windows are C19 casements under wood lintels. 2 C19/C20 doors to centre are also under wood lintels. The bay to the far left is ashlar and breaks forward slightly. Central brick stack and 2 lateral brick stacks to left and right. C19 lean-to extension to left. Rear elevation has wing breaking forward to right, with gabled roof parallel to main roof. One C17, three-light, stone mullion window, to ground floor, and similar window, with transom, to first floor. Return wall has 2 similar, 3-light, windows. There is a single-light window with stone surround, set diagonally, at the junction of the main range and the projecting wing. There is evidence that this wing continued further eastward. There is also evidence of blocked doorways in the east gable and rear well of the main range. C19 single-storey extension to rear of main range. Interior not inspected but noted as having 2 open fireplaces and a C17 staircase with moulded handrail and square newels with shaped tops. A manor was recorded an this site in 1272, William la Zouche obtained a licence to crenellate in 1387 and a map of 1630 shows buildings arranged around on inner and outer courtyard. A chapel was recorded as standing between the manor house and Church of St. John Baptist (q.v.). The Manor was bought by Moses Tryon in 1617 and he may have been responsible for some of the surviving building. The house had been largely dismantled by 1719 when the Tryon family made Bulwick Hall (q.v.) their principal residence. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: p251; RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p84; Northamptonshire Records 0ffice; Cartographical Collection).

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