Building record 4666/5/1 - No. 2 High Street (The Weir)

House, formerly farmhouse. Early/mid C17.

{1} House, formerly farmhouse. Early/mid C17. Coursed limestone rubble, ironstone dressings. Old and C20 plain-tile roof, brick end stack. L-plan. 2 storeys and attic; 2-window front range. Central false door flanked by stone buttresses disguised as gabled porch. 4-light wave-moulded stone mullion windows to ground and first floors, those to ground floor with hood moulds. Wave-moulded plinth, ironstone quoins, stone-coped gables with kneelers and one gabled roof dormer. Wing to rear left has 2- and 3-light casement windows with wood lintels and C20 glazed door with chamfered stone surround. Interior has moulded bar-stop-chamfered spine beams to ground floor and bar-stop-chamfered spine beams to first floor. Open fireplace with bar-stop-chamfered bressumer, C19 marble chimneypiece. Another fireplace with boxed bressumer. 2 stone corner fireplaces to first floor rooms of main range, both with moulded Tudor-arched heads and C19 grates. Old 2-panel doors with HL hinges. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, 1973, p.223).

{4} Two undated photos, one in colour;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 8/45 (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.223 (unchecked) (Series). SNN1320.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Gayton (Photographs). SNN112169.

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Mar 20 2025 4:22PM