Building record 667/8/1 - No. 12a Church Street (Walnut Farm House)

House. Dated 1689, renovated C20. Coursed ironstone rubble with limestone dressings, old plain-tile roof.

{1} House. Dated 1689, renovated C20. Coursed ironstone rubble with limestone dressings, old plain-tile roof. 2-unit plan. 2-storey, 5-window range. Central 6-panel door with timber lintel. 2-light C20 casement windows to ground and first floors with timber lintels. Gable ends have 2-light flat-faced stone mullion leaded windows with moulded sills and surrounds and circular window in gable with moulded stone surround. Similar 2-light windows to rear elevation facing churchyard. Plinth, quoins, storey band, moulded stone eaves and stone-coped gables with kneelers, all of limestone. Interior noted as having open fireplace with stop-chamfered bressumer and stop-chamfered spine beam. Long used as an outbuilding, formerly perhaps school house. Datestone inscribed TP/1689 has been removed from exterior and placed inside. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.107).

{4} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 10/34 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

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

<3> Pevsner N.; Cherry B., 1973, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.107 (unchecked) (Series). SNN1320.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Blakesley (Photographs). SNN112037.

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Oct 19 2022 3:35PM