Building record 4760/10/1 - No. 8 Lumber Lane

A cottage of the early C18 with C20 alterations and extensions.

{1} [Former list description] Cottage. Early C18. Coursed limestone rubble, C20 purlins and corrugated asbestos roof, brick end stacks, that to right large and with old coupled square chimneys. 2-unit plan. 2-storey, 2-window range. Central C20 door in C20 gabled stone porch, flanked by 3-light C20 casement windows. 2-light C20 casements to first floor, all with timber lintels. C20 brick single-storey extension to left. Interior has chamfered spine beams and open fireplace with ogee stop-chamfered cambered bressumer and bread oven.

{3} Cottage. Early C18.
MATERIALS: Coursed limestone rubble, with a corrugated asbestos roof.
PLAN: 2-unit plan.
EXTERIOR: A 2-storey, 2-window range with a central C20 door in a C20 gabled stone porch, flanked by 3-light C20 casement windows. There are 2-light C20 casements to the first floor, and timber lintels to the ground floor windows on the rear elevation. The roof has C20 purlins and brick end stacks; that to the right is large and with old coupled square chimneys. There is a C20 brick single-storey extension to the left.
INTERIOR: Features of interest include chamfered spine beams and an open fireplace with an ogee stop-chamfered cambered bressumer and a bread oven.
HISTORY: 8 Lumber Lane, also known as Briary Cottage, was built in the early C18. In 1919 it was the home of George Leonard Edwards, a bus operator who pioneered the bus service from Paulerspury to Northampton. A photograph of Mr Edwards outside his home in 1919 shows the cottage with a thatched roof. Alterations were carried out to the cottage in 1977, and a brick extension was built.
SOURCES:
Roger M. Warwick, Bygone Buses of Northamptonshire. No. 2: G.L. Edwards, Paulerspury (R.M. Warwick, 1982).
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION:
8 Lumber Lane is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reason:
* It is an early C18 cottage with a significant degree of survival of original fabric, including stone walls, fireplace with bressumer and bread oven, chamfered spine beams and joists on two levels, internal partitioning and oak flooring.

{4} Undated photo, also photo dated 25.11.1993;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 12/51 (unchecked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

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

<3> English Heritage, 2000, Listed Buildings Online, (checked) (Database). SNN105526.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Paulerspury (Photographs). SNN113514.

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