Building record 705/4/1 - College Farmhouse & Attached Outbuilding to Rear

Farmhouse. Early C18. Limestone ashlar with ironstone dressings, C20 plain-tile roof, stone internal stack with 4 square flues; chamfered plinth and moulded cap.

{1} Farmhouse. Early C18. Limestone ashlar with ironstone dressings, C20 plain-tile roof, stone internal stack with 4 square flues; chamfered plinth and moulded cap. 2-unit lobby-entry plan. 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. Central 8-panel door with fine moulded stone surround, plain frieze, moulded cornice and broken segmental pediment framing ball finial; approached by 3 moulded stone steps. 3-light casement ground and first floor windows to left and right with wood lintels. A 2-light casement above door with moulded stone sill and surround. Chamfered plinth, 2-light flat-faced stone mullion cellar window to right, chamfered quoins and stone-coped gables with kneelers. C19 2-storey, one-window extension to left with brick end stack. Two-light stone mullion windows to rear with moulded sills and surrounds, some blocked. Attached 2-bay outbulding to rear left probably contemporary with house. A horizontal oval window with stone surround to rear gable and stone-coped gable with kneelers to other end; slate roof. Interior: back-to-back open fireplaces, one with stop-chamfered bressumer, the other blocked; ogee-stop-chamfered spine beams. Fitted cupboard with shaped shelves. Reset staircase with original turned balusters. Bolection-moulded stone fireplace surround in upper room with Dutch tiles round late C18 cast-iron grate.

{3} A single trench was excavated along the line of the former south-west wall of the barn, which had been demolished previously as part of the current application. The trench was 0.80m wide x c.0.85m deep. The foundation for the demolished wall was cut into the natural substrate and was presumably trench-built. The wall was of roughly hewn sandstone blocks with a narrow sandstone rubble core, mixed with patches of sand and mortar. It was 0.48m wide. Within the barn a sandy mortar bed underlay the brick floor surface of the barn which was set in Rowlock coursing.

{4} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 5/206 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

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

<3> Ladocha J.; Leigh D., 2013, A Programme of Archaeological Observation, Investigation and Recording During Groundworks on Land at College Farm Barn, Main Street, Woodend, Northamptonshire, April 2013, p.5 (checked) (Report). SNN109921.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Woodend (Photographs). SNN114289.

<5> Ladocha J.; Leigh D., 2013, A Programme of Archaeological Observation, Investigation and Recording During Groundworks on Land at College Farm Barn, Main Street, Woodend, Northamptonshire, April 2013 (Report). SNN109921.

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Jan 19 2024 12:40PM