Building record 1663/3/1 - Manor House, No.1 North Street

Manor House. Early C18. Coursed squared ironstone, C20 plain-tile roof with ornamental ridge tiles, brick end stacks.

{1} Manor House. Early C18. Coursed squared ironstone, C20 plain-tile roof with ornamental ridge tiles, brick end stacks. 2-unit plan with central staircase. 2 storeys and attic; 5-window range. Main front to street has 2-light leaded casement windows to ground and 1st floors, one with original small crown glass panes. Central 1st floor window blocked, that to left a dummy window. All have flat-arched heads, those to ground floor with raised key blocks. Chamfered plinth, quoins, storey band and stone-coped gables with kneelers; 2 horizontal keyed oval windows in right gable. Central door to rear, 6-panelled, part-glazed with straight hood on brackets. 1-storey-and-attic wing to right, set-back, and to rear right. Interior has ogee-stop-chamfered spine beams, open fireplace in kitchen with stop-chamfered bressumer, another large open fireplace, partly blocked with chamfered stone jamb and stop-chamfered bressumer, and 2 large bolection-moulded stone fireplaces with moulded stone mantels. Dog-leg staircase from ground floor to attic.

{3} C17. With gables and mullioned windows.

{4} Four undated photos, also photo dated 09.12.1993;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 5/188 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

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

<3> Pevsner N.; Cherry B., 1973, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.390 (unchecked) (Series). SNN1320.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Rothersthorpe (Photographs). SNN113127.

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