Building record 7751/1/1 - Stone Works Farmhouse & Attached Outbuilding

Farmhouse. Early C19. Limestone ashlar, hipped slate roofs, brick rear lateral stacks.

{1} Farmhouse. Early C19. Limestone ashlar, hipped slate roofs, brick rear lateral stacks. L plan. 2-storey, 3-window range. Central 4-panel door with fanlight in rusticated stone surround. 16-pane sash windows to ground and 1st floors with stone lintels and keyblocks. Plinth, storey band, moulded stone eaves and blocking cornice. Central bay breaks forward and has pediment with inscription BLISWORTH/STONE WORKS. Single-storey, 5-bay wing to right with central C20 door in porch with Tuscan columns and tablature. Windows are flanked by plain pilasters and have segmental-arched heads and raised keyblocks. Imposts band and moulded stone eaves. 2-storey wing to rear left, possibly extension has sash window and C20 door and other C20 windows. Attached single-storey L-plan outbuilding has hipped slate roof and is open to yard to rear of house on Greek Doric columns. Interior not inspected. Blisworth stone quarry was opened in 1821.

{3} On the east side of Stoke Road, above the north entrance to Blisworth canal tunnel and half a mile south of the village centre is a range of stone buildings now part of a farm. These formed the stoneworks operating from the 1820s to c.1912. The house fronting onto the road is of classical style with ‘Blisworth Stone Works’ inscribed beneath the central pediment. Photo.

{5} Two undated photos, also photo dated 15.12.1993;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 4/32 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F10 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> Northamptonshire Industrial Archaeology Group, 2001, A Guide To The Industrial Heritage Of Northamptonshire, p.11 (checked) (Gazetteer). SNN104759.

<4> Northamptonshire Industrial Archaeology Group, 2011, A Guide To The Industrial Heritage of Northamptonshire (2nd Edition), p.13 (checked) (Gazetteer). SNN107622.

<5> Photographs of buildings in Blisworth (Photographs). SNN112040.

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Jan 19 2022 3:13PM