Building record 4701/0/1 - Rectory Cottage

{1} House. Early-mid C17 with medieval origins, altered and extended C20. Coursed limestone, C20 plain-tile roof, brick end stacks. Hall house originally, now 2-unit-plan house with central cross passage. 2-storey, 3-window range. Central blocked door with C20 casement window and wood lintel, a one-light casement to right, 3-light casements to ground floor left and right and 2-light casements to first floor, all with wood lintels. Single-storey C20 extension to left end. Interior: bar-stop-chamfered spine beams, some old stop-chamfered joists and 2 open fireplaces with chamfered bressumers and small double bar stops. Roof has pair of arch-braced collar trusses with side-struts to principal rafters; possibly C14.

{3} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 4/1 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F11 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> Photographs of buildings in Ashton (Photographs). SNN111856.

Record last edited

Feb 5 2020 2:20PM