Building record 1663/4/1 - The Manor & Attached Outbuilding

House, formerly farmhouse. Mid/late C17, with C19 and C20 alterations. Coursed squared ironstone, banded with limestone, slate roof, brick end stacks on stone bases.

{1} House, formerly farmhouse. Mid/late C17, with C19 and C20 alterations. Coursed squared ironstone, banded with limestone, slate roof, brick end stacks on stone bases. L-plan. 2 storeys and attic. 2-storey porch in re-entrant angle facing left with C20 studded plank door with moulded wood surround and stop-chamfered lintel and 2-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion windows to ground and 1st floors, with hood mould to ground floor, blocked to 1st; plain stone-coped parapet. Similar 2-light window to ground floor of wing to left of porch and similar 3-light window above with hood mould. Wing to right of porch has 3-light casement window to right of porch with stone surround of original 4-light stone mullion window and similar 3-light window to 1st floor above, both with hood moulds. Garden front to rear has stone surrounds and hood moulds of 3- and 4-light stone mullion windows, all replaced by casements, except for one which has become a garden door. 2 and 3 light ovolo-moulded stone mullion windows to right side elevation, all with hood moulds, those to ground and 1st floor centre and gable replaced by casements. Quoins, chamfered plinth and stone-coped gables with kneelers. Single-storey extension to wing to right of porch has plain tile roof, 4-panel back door with wood lintel, 3-light casement window to right with wood lintel. Attached L-plan outbuilding has front wall of red brick and 2-bay cart shed open to yard with elliptical-arched openings and 3 loose boxes in return wing. Interior: wall has large Tudor-arched stone corner fireplace with cut spandrels. Similar smaller fireplace in another room. Large open fireplace with bar stop-chamfered cambered bressumer. Stone corner fireplace upstairs with cambered chamfered stone lintel. Stop-moulded spine beams, stop-chamfered spine beams and ogee stop-chamfered joists. Dog-leg staircase from ground floor to attic. Collar-truss roof.

{3} Two undated photos, also four photos dated 18.04.1994;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 5/171 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

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

<3> Photographs of buildings in Rothersthorpe (Photographs). SNN113127.

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Jul 20 2023 3:11PM