Building record 599/5/1 - Manor Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Dated 1656, altered C19 and C20. Coursed squared ironstone, slate roof, stone ridge and rear lateral stack.

{1} Farmhouse. Dated 1656, altered C19 and C20. Coursed squared ironstone, slate roof, stone ridge and rear lateral stack. 4-unit plan. 2 storeys and attic; 7-window range. Main front to garden has 6-panel, part-glazed door to right of centre with moulded wood surround, timber lintel and straight hood with brackets. C19 horned sash windows of varying sizes, to ground and first floors, all with timber lintels. Blocked door to right of existing door with small rectangular window inset. Two 3-light chamfered stone mullion cellar windows to right of centre. Buttress to left. Nogged brick eaves and stone-coped gables with kneelers. Left gable end has 3-light first floor window with chamfered stone mullions and hood mould, similar 2-light window to attic and datestone above inscribed EH/1656. Interior has chamfered spine beams and 2 open fireplaces back-to-back with stop-chamfered bressumers. Stone cellar. Collar truss roof.

{3} Undated photo, also two photos dated 11/06/91;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 1/26 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

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

<3> Photographs of buildings in Adstone (Photographs). SNN111845.

<4> Prentice, J., 2016, Building recording on agricultural barns at The Grange, Adstone, Northamptonshire, August 2016 (Report). SNN110457.

<5> Bailey, B, Pevsner, N, and Cherry, B, 2013, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p. 76 (Book). SNN111989.

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Jun 22 2020 9:08AM