ENN110642 - Home Farm House, Lower Street, 2022 (Building recording)

In 2022 a Historic Building Record was made of two historic outbuildings within the curtilage of Home Farm House, a Grade II Listed Building in the village of Twywell, Northamptonshire. The house is understood to have originated in the mid-17th century. The outbuildings situated to the rear of the house were built in two phases. The earliest, constructed of coursed limestone rubble with pantiled roof appears to correspond to an outbuilding depicted on a map of 1736. Spear-headed strap hinges on the entrance door and a near-complete smoke jack mechanism inside a chimney breast would accord with an early 18th century date. The building, which is single-storied and single-celled appears to have served a primary function of meat preparation, a substantial fireplace (with the smoke jack) being the dominant feature; other fittings and fixtures, consisting of iron meat hooks and a shallow glazed stoneware trough sink. The fireplace features a chamfered oak lintel beam with run-out stops. The second outbuilding was constructed at some juncture between 1736 and 1884. Appended to the 18th century building and constructed partly of coursed rubble limestone and partly of brick, it appears to have originated as a cart shed with partitioned tack room and adjoining stable, the latter now in separate ownership. The report provides a descriptive and illustrative account of observations, by means of digital photographs, scale drawings and plans showing the direction of view of each photograph. Other than ownership and tenancy of the farm buildings in the late 19th and early 20th century, documented history of Home Farm is scant.