Building record 667/0/22 - No. 7 High Street (Kendal House)

{1} House. Early C18 with C19 alterations. Coursed squared ironstone, slate roof, blue brick ridge and end stacks on stone bases. 3-unit plan. 2 storeys and attic; 5-window range. Central 6-panel door with wood lintel and straight hood on brackets, approached by 3 stone steps. Two canted bay windows to right of centre with horned sashes, otherwise horned sash windows to ground and first floors, all with wood lintels. 4-light chamfered stone mullion cellar window to left of door, quoins to 3 C19 gabled dormer windows. Long 2-storey wing to rear left. Interior: ogee-stop-chamfered spine beams; open fireplace with ogee-stop-chamfered bressumer; open-well staircase from ground floor to attic with serpentine splat balusters; fitted cupboard with semi-domed head; stone cellar. Believed to have been a coaching inn and the original 'Red Lion'; malting house and corn chandlers premises C19. (P.B. Kingston, "Blakesley Then and Now", 1983, p.2).

{3} The floor of the dining room/ ceiling of the cellar below were recorded before being replaced like-for-like. The vaulted cellar may be late medieval; nothing apparently remains of the structure over it. The frontage of the building dates to the 18th century; the dining room was secondary, perhaps of the early 19th century.

{6} Undated photo, also photos dated 11.06.1991, 19.03.1992 and 19.01.1993;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 10/213 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F08 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> Soden I., 2006, Archaeological Buildings Recording at 7 High Street, Blakesley, Northamptonshire. March 2006, (checked) (Report). SNN105487.

<4> PONSFORD M., 2007, Post-medieval fieldwork in Britain and Northern Ireland in 2006, p.371 (checked) (Article). SNN106854.

<5> Kingston P.B., 1983, Blakesley - Then and Now, p.2 (unchecked) (Book). SNN104682.

<6> Photographs of buildings in Blakesley (Photographs). SNN112037.

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