Building record 939/0/21 - No.53 High Street

House, formerly farmhouse. Dated 1711, altered C19.

{1} House, formerly farmhouse. Dated 1711, altered C19. Coursed squared ironstone, straw thatch roof, brick end and ridge stacks. 3-unit plan. 2 storeys and attic; 4-window range. C19 part-glazed door to left of centre in pegged wood surround with wood lintel and C19 gabled porch, flanked by 3-light leaded casement windows with stop-chamfered wood lintel to left, stone lintel to right, both with hood moulds. Small low 2-light stone mullion window to right. 3-light leaded ovolo-moulded stone mullion window, a longer 2-light window to right of centre. Central gabled dormer window with 2-light ovolo-moulded mullion window and datestone above inscribed DF/LS/1711. Lower 2-storey 1-bay wing projects to right with similar 2-light windows to ground and first floors. Quoins and stone-coped gables with kneelers. Interior: ogee-stop-chamfered spine beams, some ogee-stop-chamfered joists, open fireplace with stop-chamfered cambered bressumer. Turned and twisted balusters and newel posts with round and polygonal finials.

{3} Two undated photos;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 9/60 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

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

<3> Photographs of buildings in Harpole (Photographs). SNN112523.

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Mar 20 2025 4:21PM