Building record 745/4/1 - Home Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Dated 1818. Limestone ashlar and coursed squared limestone with ironstone dressings, slate roof, brick end and ridge stacks.

{1} Farmhouse. Dated 1818. Limestone ashlar and coursed squared limestone with ironstone dressings, slate roof, brick end and ridge stacks. 3-unit plan. 2-storey, 5-window range. 4-panel door to right of centre with panelled reveals, ornamental overlight and pilastered stone doorcase. 16-pane sash windows either side. Similar part-glazed door to left of centre, 12-pane sash to right, rendered pilaster strip to left defining left end bay of coursed squared stone with tripartite sashes to ground and first floors, 12-pane sashes to remaining first floor windows. All windows have stone sills, flat-arched heads and keyblocks. Coved, plastered eaves and datestone in left gable inscribed TB/1818. Interior: open-well staircase with stick balusters and ramped mahogony handrail, stone fireplace in kitchen and cellar. The initials TB on datestone are said to be those of Thomas Barford. Right end room has fitted shelving and was a shop.

{4} Undated photo, also photo dated 25.11.1993;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 7/70 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

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

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

<4> Photographs of buildings in Silverstone (Photographs). SNN113232.

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Oct 19 2022 2:30PM