Building record 5138/0/13 - Park House and attached outbuilding range

{1} House. Late C17 altered C19 and C20. Coursed limestone and ironstone rubble, C20 plain-tile roof, brick end stacks. 3 unit plan. 2 storeys and attic. 7-window range. Central 6-panel part-glazed door in C20 gabled porch flanked by narrow 8-pane sash windows. Similar windows either side of central first floor window. Otherwise quartered sashes to ground floor and 12-pane sashes to first floor. All have blue brick sills and wood lintels. 3 gabled roof dormers. Central projecting stair turret to rear. Single storey outbuilding range to rear left with datestone inscribed WS/1792. Interior has fine dog-leg staircase from ground floor to attic with fat turned balusters, ogee-stop-chamfered spine beams, 6-panel doors with H.L. hinges. Early/mid C18 wood eaved fireplace surround in upper room. Adjoining closet with original plank doors hinges and latches. Stone cellar.

{3} Undated photo;

{4} Four photos dated 1990;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 4/15 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1976, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), L10 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN1000.

<3> Photographs of buildings in Upton (Photographs). SNN113623.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Northampton (Photographs). SNN114989.

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Jul 19 2023 10:38AM