Building record 1596/1/1 - Abbey Way House

{1} Farmhouse. Dated 1841. Limestone ashlar, hipped slate roof, brick lateral stacks. Double-depth plan. 2-storey, 3-window range. Central 4-panel door with fanlight and segmental-arched head with key and voussoir blocks, sash windows to ground and first floors, with stone lintels and keyblocks except for central first floor window with segmental-arched head. 2-storey wing to left. Garden front has similar composition but round-arched head to door and central first floor window. Ironstone datestone to left side elevation inscribed "K/SK/1841". Interior has stone paved staircase hall with open-well staircase with thin splat balusters, carved head ends, ramped and wreathed handrail and cast-iron standard. Coloured glass in fanlight of front and garden doors, and statuary marble chimneypiece from Whittlebury Lodge.

{3} Undated photo, also two photos dated 26.11.1993;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 15/73 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F07 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> Photographs of buildings in Syresham (Photographs). SNN113238.

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Apr 27 2022 10:44AM