Building record 728/0/25 - Nos.1 & 3 Blakesley Hill

Pair of cottages. C18.

{1} Pair of cottages. C18. Painted coursed rubble, corrugated iron and asbestos roofs, brick ridge and end stacks. Both cottages have 2-unit plans. 2-storey, 3-window range. No. 1 to left has plank door with timber lintel flanked by old 2-light casement windows with timber lintels. Similar smaller window to first floor right. No. 3 has C20 door with timber lintels and 2-light C20 casements to ground and first floors in old openings; 2-storey, one-window extension to right. Both formerly thatched; eaves built up in brick when thatch was removed. Interior: No. 1 has fine open fireplace with stop-chamfered bressumer. Stop-chamfered spine beams.

{3} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 11/72 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

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

<3> Photographs of buildings in Greens Norton (Photographs). SNN112586.

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Nov 15 2024 2:37PM