Building record 4760/12 - The Hunt House, High Street

Farmhouse, now offices. c.1840. Limestone ashlar with ironstone dressings, hipped slate roof, brick internal stacks. Formerly the headquarters of the Grafton Hunt and one of a set of estate buildings erected for the Duke of Grafton. It now houses the Henry Royce Foundation.

{1} Farmhouse, now offices. c.1840. Limestone ashlar with ironstone dressings, hipped slate roof, brick internal stacks. Double-depth plan. 3-storey, 3-window range. Central 6-panel door with ornamental overlight in stone surround, with Ionic pilasters supporting entablature. 16-pane sash windows throughout with ironstone sills, jambs and flat-arched heads. Chamfered quoins and bracketed eaves. 2-storey wing to left and C20 extension to rear. Interior has open-well staircase from ground to second floors with stick balusters, carved tread ends and ramped mahogany handrail. Formerly the headquarters of the Grafton Hunt and one of a set of estate buildings erected for the Duke of Grafton. It now houses the Henry Royce Foundation. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.371).

{5} Undated photo, also photo dated 25.11.1993;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 4/46 (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, p.371 (unchecked) (Series). SNN1320.

<4> Riden P.; Insley C., 2002, The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Northamptonshire, p. 272 (Series). SNN102540.

<5> Photographs of buildings in Paulerspury (Photographs). SNN113514.

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