Building record 939/0/8 - No.35 (Sundial Cottage), High Street

House, formerly 2 or 3 cottages. Late C17 with C18, C19 and C20 alterations.

{1} House, formerly 2 or 3 cottages. Late C17 with C18, C19 and C20 alterations. Coursed squared ironstone, thatch and slate roofs, brick ridge and end stacks. 3-unit plan house to left of ridge stack, formerly right end stack, 2-unit lobby-entry plan to right with 1-unit extension to far right with lower slate roof. 2-storey, 8-window range. C20 door to left with wood lintel, old plank door to right with chamfered Tudor-arched wood surround in 2-storey gabled porch with stone piers supporting rende oor, and C20 door to far right with wood lintel in C20 gabled porch. Irregular glazing of 2-, 3- and 4-light casement windows, all with wood lintels, those to first floor and house to left leaded, and small 2-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion windows to ground and first floors either side of porch, that to ground floor right blocked. Stone-coped gable to left with kneelers. Interior: four open fireplaces with chamfered bressumers, one with ogee stops, another with ogee-stop-chamfer jambs. Chamfered spine beams, one with wedge stops. Stone fireplace to upstairs room with moulded jambs to lintel. Collar-truss roof.

{3} Two undated photos;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 9/57 (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 4:22PM