Building record 4709/6/1 - The Old Rectory & Attached Stable Block & Outbuilding

House, formerly rectory. Datestone inscribed EB/1796 with 19th-and 20th-century alterations and additions. Constructed from coursed limestone rubblewith hipped slate roofs, brick lateral stacks.

{1} House, formerly rectory. Late C18, with C19, and C20 alterations and additions. Coursed limestone rubble, hipped slate roofs, brick lateral stacks. T plan. Central 3-storey pavilion with canted projection, rendered and with 12-pane sash windows all with blank round trefoiled heads. 2-storey, 2-window symmetrical flanking wings with similar windows and brick jambs and heads. 4-panel part-glazed door with overlight and similar head to far right. Ironstone quoins. Attached single-storey stable block to left with central blocked door with round-arched head, flanked by 9-pane sash windows with flat-arched heads and keyblocks; half-hipped slate roof. Linked by lower single-storey outbuilding to main block. Datestone above door inscribed EB/1796. Garden front of main block has 3-storey projection with canted end sash windows, those to ground floor with segmental-arched brick heads and crow-stepped gable. Interior has chequered stone-paved floor to hall and staircase hall. Open well stair with wood trellis balustrade painted black and imitating a cast-iron balustrade with ramped and wreathed mahogany handrail and carved tread ends. Library in projecting wing to garden has fitted bookcases with segmental-arched heads.

{3} Four undated photos, also two photos dated 07/01/1994;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 5/41 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

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

<3> Photographs of buildings in Courteenhall (Photographs). SNN112099.

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Sep 16 2020 10:34AM