Building record 901/0/4 - No.17 (Cromwell House)

House. Mid/late C17, altered C19. Coursed limestone rubble with ironstone dressings, old plain-tile roof, stone end stack to left, brick end stack to right. T-plan. 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. Plank door to left of centre with wood lintel, 2-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion window to ground floor centre otherwise 3-light casement windows to ground and first floors with wood lintel and ironstone jambs of original stone mullion windows, Chamfered plinth, ironstone hollow-chamfered string course, limestone quoins and ironstone-coped gables with kneelers, 2-stormy-and-attic wing to rear is probably of sane date as main range or slightly later. 2-storey stone stair turret to rear left corner. interior: ogee-stop-chamfered spine beans. Large open fireplace with cambered stop-moulded bressumer. Stone corner fireplace in rear wing with Tudor-arched head, similar smaller fireplace upstairs Collar-truss roof.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 7/163 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F09 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

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Sep 28 2020 2:20PM